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During the Jaws era, the Carcharodon carcharias was known as the great white shark. Taxonomists had a problem with this ...
The waters of the East Coast are no strangers to the presence of sharks, but a recent discovery has caught the attention of ...
A MONSTER 3.2m great white has become the first shark to be caught in nets on the north coast, just two days after they were installed to stop a spate of attacks.
One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender – the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic – has revealed how to escape a close encounter. Contender, the ...
He is not the largest great white shark OCEARCH has tagged. That honor goes to Nukumi, a 17-foot, 2-inch, 3,541-pound female great white shark. Nukumi's whereabouts are still a great mystery.
And that’s exactly what happened, at least some of the time. When the young sharks were exposed to the magnetic field of the place they were caught, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, they swam in ...
"It's really great because it goes right into the research, right into tags, right into bait, right into things we're doing, it makes a big difference," ASI Executive Director Jon Dodd said.
Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.
He is not the largest great white shark OCEARCH has tagged. That honor goes to Nukumi, a 17-foot, 2-inch, 3,541-pound female great white shark. Nukumi's whereabouts are still a great mystery.
For years, "Jaws" and its sequels painted great white sharks as the ocean’s ultimate villain: a ruthless killer lurking just beneath the surface, waiting to pounce.
One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender - the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic - has revealed how to escape a close encounter. Contender, the ...