Great white shark named George stalks Everglade waters
A great white shark named George has been spotted lingering off the Florida coast near the Everglades and Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
Feb 6, 2018
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News tagged with sharks
First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white may help solve longstanding mystery in shark science
Great whites, the largest predatory sharks in the world with the most fatal attacks on humans, are tough to imagine as newborn babies. That is partially because no one has seen one in the wild, it seems, until now.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2024
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Shark's 8,500-mile odyssey ends on a NC fisherman's hook
A mako shark caught by commercial fishermen off North Carolina traveled more than 8,500 miles after a tracking device was attached 18 months earlier, an ocean research group says.
Ecology
Dec 8, 2016
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School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 7, 2021
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The Earth sank twice, flooding the Eastern Amazon: Team finds shark tooth in northwest Amazon basin
A tiny shark tooth, part of a mantis shrimp and other microscopic marine organisms reveal that as the Andes rose, the Eastern Amazon sank twice, each time for less than a million years. Water from the Caribbean flooded the ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2017
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Clip provides first proof of orcas killing white sharks
Scientists have published new findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world's largest sea predators.
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2022
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Giant monster Megalodon sharks lurking in our oceans: be serious
The sighting of a seven-metre shark off the South Australia coast this month has excited the world's media with some making reference to the great white that featured in the classic 1975 film Jaws.
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2016
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The City of David and the sharks' teeth mystery
Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none—in a 2900 year old site in the City of David in Jerusalem. This is at least 80 km from where these fossils would ...
Archaeology
Jul 4, 2021
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South Africa's great white sharks are changing locations—they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation
South Africa is renowned for having one of the world's biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the sharks normally gather on the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2023
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Study shows sharks have personalities
For the first time a study led by researchers at Macquarie University has observed the presence of individual personality differences in Port Jackson sharks.
Ecology
May 27, 2016
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