News tagged with great whites

Leviathans battle in remote depths: Great white sharks may migrate so they can dine on giant squids

In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Scientists worry about ocean energy's effect on sea-creature migration

Without maps or GPS, great white sharks travel thousand of miles roundtrip from California to Hawaii or Australia to South Africa. Sea turtles hatched on the beaches of Florida travel the currents of the North Atlantic Gyre ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 28, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Endangered sturgeon fish flourishing in Wisconsin

(AP) -- It's been a tough fight for the whisker-snouted sturgeon.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Mediterranean home to great white sharks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Great white sharks found in the Mediterranean were originally from Australia, researchers have discovered.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Rare white whale calf spotted off Australia

An extremely rare white humpback whale calf has been spotted near Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an event witnesses described Thursday as a "once in a lifetime experience".

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Great white sharks hunt just like Hannibal Lecter

(AP) -- Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Great white sharks tagged for first time off Mass.

(AP) -- Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod - the first time the fearsome fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

N.Z. great white sharks take 'tropical holidays'

New Zealand's great white sharks enjoy an annual "tropical holiday", swimming thousands of kilometres (miles) to warm South Pacific waters before returning home, according to researchers.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Teenage great white sharks are awkward biters

The jaws of adolescent great white sharks may be too weak to capture and kill large marine mammals, according to a new study published in the Journal of Biomechanics by an international team of scientists.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0