sharks
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The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Also Jumbled Shark Evolution
More than 500 different shark species roam Earth’s oceans: From zippy little cookie-cutter sharks, to the iconic great white, to nightmarish goblin sharks, to 7.5m-long, filter-feeding basking sharks. And it seems that the current equilibrium of shark species we see today arose after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to new…
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Adorable New Shark Species Named After Trailblazing Marine Biologist Eugenie Clark
Say hello to Squalus clarkae, otherwise known as Genie’s dogfish. This newly identified species of deepwater shark was named in honour of Eugenie Clark, a scientific pioneer who influenced an entire generation of marine biologists.
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Scientists Document ‘Opportunistic’ Alligators Eating Sharks
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, or in the case of the southeastern United States, it’s an alligator-eat-shark kind of a world, according to an unsettling new study from Kansas State University scientists.
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Kentucky Wildlife Officials Assure Citizens That Alleged Lake Shark Threat Isn’t Real
It’s hard work being online these days. What with all of the “fake news” and “viral posts” corrupting the World Wide Web. So how are you supposed to know what’s real and what’s bullcrap, or rather, bull shark crap?