sharks
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No Thanks: An Ancient Megalodon Could Swallow a Great White Shark Whole
In a new 3D modelling study published this week in Science Advances, we show that the giant extinct shark, Otodus megalodon, was a true globetrotting super-predator. It was capable of covering vast distances in short order, and could eat the largest of modern living super-predators, the killer whale, in five gargantuan bites. It could have…
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Whale Sharks Keep Crashing Into Ships
The oceans’ gentle giants are being wiped out by human activity, new research shows.
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Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North America, where a bombardment of blue dots made it look like the coastline was being assaulted by white sharks.
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Two Bull Sharks Swam Up the Mississippi River All the Way to St. Louis
Bull sharks are coastal creatures, but at least two of the animals were able to make it as far inland as St. Louis by swimming up the Mississippi River, according to a team of researchers who looked at the shark’s fossil record and reported sightings over the years.