Scientists Risk Their Lives To Uncover The Mysteries Of The Great White Triangle
Until recently, divers hoping to catch a glimpse of great whites in the wild had to rely on immobile shark cages lowered into the water off the side of a boat.So one professional diver and guide,...
View ArticleThese Ten Shark Species Have The Weirdest Names
Happy Shark Week!In honor of the One True American Holiday (all other holidays are less true, due to lower shark content), I spent about an hour reading about sharks on Wikipedia.Important findings...
View ArticleThis 1970s Documentary Is The Best Shark Movie You've Probably Never Seen
The history of shark movies is littered with some good, some bad and some very ugly films. BeforeSharknado, before Open Water, even before Jaws, there was Blue Water, White Death, which may just be the...
View ArticleResearchers Off Cape Cod Just Caught And Tagged Their First Great White Shark
OCEARCH researchers off the coast of Cape Cod just caught and tagged their first great white of the season.The expedition is supposed to last 30 days, and they are hoping to tag up to 20 animals,...
View ArticleHere Is A Picture Of A Shark Inside A Shark
A photo of a shark eating another shark was taken by a graduate student with the University of Delaware's ORB LAB as the research program kicked off its shark-tagging season in July. The photo was...
View ArticleScientists Discover A New Species Of 'Walking' Shark
Sharks that 'walk' instead of swim use their pectoral and pelvic fins to push and wriggle their bodies along coral reefs.A new species of "walking" shark, Hemiscyllium halmahera, was caught in eastern...
View ArticleNew Species Of Hammerhead Shark Found Near South Carolina
When new species are found near populated areas, they are often small and inconspicuous, not, for example, a hammerhead shark.But that's exactly what a team of researchers discovered along the coast of...
View ArticleSwimmer Bear-Hugs A Shark In Bora Bora [Video]
A swimmer on vacation to Bora Bora has posted a video of himself hugging a shark, and many are criticizing the stunt as "idiotic," The Daily Mail reports.Grant Murdoch was filmed by other snorkelers...
View ArticleA Tiger Shark Was Photographed With Its Mouth Wide Open
Cat Schultz, an intern with the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program took this picture, showing the inside of a tiger shark's mouth, as part of an ongoing tagging project off the coast of Florida.The...
View ArticleAustralia Will Employ Shark 'Kill' Zones To Reduce Attacks On Swimmers
A controversial policy to catch and kill sharks off popular west coast beaches got the green light in Australia, in a move the Humane Society Tuesday termed a "complete disgrace".The federal government...
View ArticleMan Fights Off Shark, Stitches His Own Wounds, Goes To Get A Beer At The Pub
A New Zealand doctor fought off an attacking shark with a knife before heading ashore to stitch his own wounds and on to the nearest pub for a beer, reports said Tuesday.James Grant was spearfishing...
View ArticleAustralian Man Fined $16,000 For Killing Great White Shark By Beating It With...
A juvenile Great White Shark was run down by a boat, herded into shallow water, dragged by the tail up a boat ramp and then bashed to death with a metal pole.The 40-year-old man who delivered the death...
View ArticleMan Wearing Go Pro Fights Off Small Shark With A Spear
On March 14th, diver Jason Dmitri was culling for lion fish approximately 70 feet underwater in the Western Caribbean Sea when a shark came out of nowhere and was ready to feast.Dmitri had a Go Pro...
View ArticleShark Takes Kayaking Student On Two-Hour 'South Florida Sleigh Ride'
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A hammerhead shark dragged a college student in his kayak up the Atlantic coast for a two-hour "South Florida sleigh ride" that the kayaker taped with a head-mounted camera...
View ArticleRare Goblin Shark Caught In Florida Hasn't Been Seen In More Than A Decade
On Wednesday, a Florida fisherman accidentally pulled up an 18-foot Goblin shark while he was going for shrimp, NOAA Fisheries Service reported.This is only the second-ever goblin shark to be spotted...
View ArticleScientists Found Something Startling In Photos Of A Rare Goblin Shark
In April, shrimp fisherman Carl Moore accidentally caught an incredibly rare goblin shark off the Florida Keys. Moore snapped photos of the 18-foot-long creature before releasing it back into the...
View ArticleA Rare Megamouth Shark Captured Off Japan Is Only The 58th Ever Seen
An extremely rare megamouth shark was recently captured off the coast of southern Japan, representing only the 58th time a member of this species has been seen by humans.The female shark, weighting...
View ArticleSuper Tough Shark Proteins Could Be Used To Treat Human Diseases
Sharks and humans last shared a common fishy ancestor about 500 million years ago. Ever since, the two lineages have been making life difficult for one another. There has been an unhappy history of...
View ArticlePunching A Shark In The Nose Is Not Your Best Defense
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View ArticleA Diver's Scary Great White Shark Encounter Was Caught On Video
With an underwater camera attached to his head, a diver captured a spooky encounter with a great white shark off the shores of Florida.Earlier this month, the diver, Jimmy Roseman, of West Melbourne,...
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