'Essentially a gas station,' fishy feast draws sea lions to Pier 39 in numbers not seen in 15 years
They're big, loud, and smelly—and they have taken over San Francisco's touristy Pier 39.
They're big, loud, and smelly—and they have taken over San Francisco's touristy Pier 39.
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2024
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Remember #BabyShark? And no, this was not the very catchy song for kids that took the internet by storm. Earlier this year, social media was abuzz with stunning footage of a newborn great white shark, captured by a flying ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2024
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Increasing sea surface temperatures over the past 20 years in Mobile Bay—an estuary in the US state of Alabama—have coincided with five-fold increases in the abundance of juvenile bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas), according ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2024
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A group of marine biologists specializing in shark ecology, genetics and fisheries have challenged the findings from a recent study suggesting that South Africa's white shark population has not decreased, but simply redistributed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2024
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Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their findings, published in Cretaceous Research, show a dramatically different ...
Evolution
Mar 5, 2024
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An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark—and within just two minutes.
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2024
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A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being captured and killed. The recent ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2024
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It has been reported that a newborn great white shark was spotted off the southern coast of California—the first time one has been seen in the wild, experts believe.
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2024
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The prehistoric megalodon is known as one of the most fearsome creatures the world has ever known, a horrifyingly giant shark immortalized in the monster movie "The Meg".
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 22, 2024
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Sea Otter Savvy monitors the animals in the Morro Bay Harbor, tracking their behavior and watching how they react to their environment. Sea otters remain a threatened species in California.
Plants & Animals
Oct 10, 2023
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