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A large shark was sighted in Block Island's Great Salt Pond over Memorial Day weekend. The Atlantic Shark Institute received ...
Here are all the best movies that made you terrified of swimming in a pool, let alone the actual ocean, where the sharks live ...
“Last year we saw a couple of whites, this year we saw two or three, well maybe four,” says merchant marine vessel captain ... NC aquarium shark research scientist Holly Doerr says some ...
In February 2019, the RV Petrel — a research ship then owned by Microsoft co-founder ... exposure, and dozens of shark attacks. American authorities learned of the sinking only on the morning ...
From fear to fascination: That’s how humans’ view of great white sharks has evolved, scientists say, since the movie “Jaws” ...
The activity follows several high-profile cable cuts, with Taiwan detaining one Chinese crew on suspicion of sabotage.
A shark weighing more than 1,500 pounds was tracked off the coast of the Myrtle Beach area. He’s also been tracked in Florida ...
Many sharks, particularly those that live in the open oceans, are hunters rather than scavengers. Despite this, a small portion of their diet comes from scavenging, a behavior they may engage in when ...
"Contender" is the largest male great white shark the OCEARCH research group has ever tagged in the western North Atlantic Ocean!
A photo provided by the Coast Guard appears to show the Chinese ship deploying what appeared to be a wire into the ocean. A Japanese patrol aircraft issued radio warnings to the vessel, stating that ...
Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized ...
Now, at 64 years old, he's the director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and the International Shark Attack File, which are both headquartered at UF's Florida Museum of Natural History.