A MUSEUM has drafted in its own version of Jaws as part of a summer exhibition.

A life-size model of man's most feared predator, the Great White Shark, landed at the Hancock Museum, in Newcastle, yesterday.

It has been specially made for the museum's Shark exhibition, which has been created by the Hancock in partnership with the Yorkshire Museum.

The exhibition unravels the facts from the fiction about the notorious creatures and explores shark attacks, behaviour, fossils, anatomy and reproduction.

It features live sharks and rays, shark eggs which are due to hatch, as well as the biggest fossil species, Megalodon. It also reveals what the shark's 400 million-year-old ancestor looked like.

Visitors will be able to stand in a shark cage and feel what it is like to be surrounded by the awesome predators, then walk along a misty pier and imagine they are standing above shark-infested waters.

Steve McLean, curator of the Hancock Museum, said: "Shark will be an exciting and eye-opening journey into the world of these fascinating creatures. The arrival of the Great White model has already got the Hancock buzzing in anticipation of the exhibition launch."

Shark opens at the Hancock on July 13.