A complaint filed with the 13th Judicial Circuit State Attorney and the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center alleged that an adult nurse shark that died at Tampa’s Florida Aquarium in November was due to human neglect. The complaint was brought forth by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Foundation on Thursday after a former biologist who worked for […]
Gutted bull sharks found in Titusville
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the dumping of three juvenile bull sharks that had been killed and gutted and left on a Titusville shoreline. The carcasses were found in Kennedy Point Park on Thursday. “I can’t believe they’d just gut it and throw their bodies away, make them go to waste,” […]
Rhode Island becomes latest to ban shark fins
Rhode Island became the 11th state in America to ban the ownership or sale of shark fins. The rule, which passed unanimously in both the state senate and house, went into effect on Jan. 1. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Susan Sosnowski and signed into law by Governor Gina Raimondo (D). Offenders could face fine of up […]
Divers encounter great white off Juno Beach
Divers in about 90 feet of water approximately 3.5 miles off the coast of Juno Beach encountered a 12-foot great white shark on Sunday. Corey Embree, a dive instructor with Deep Six Dive Charters in Vero Beach, was able to shoot footage of the shark and posted it to his Facebook page. The shark did not appear […]
Florida boy bit by shark despite repellent band
A new Christmas gift that was meant to ward off possible shark attacks didn’t work as intended after a Fort Pierce teenager was bit off the east coast of Florida. Zack Davis, 16, was bit on the lower right arm while surfing near the at Avalon Park Beach in North Hutchison Island on Tuesday. “I have a big […]
Juvenile great white rescued by beachgoers in Venice Beach
An approximately 4.5-foot shark got a helping hand from Los Angeles beachgoers after it became stranded on the shore near a Venice Beach fishing pier in California this week. Although it can’t be identified for certain, the shark appears to be either a juvenile great white or a salmon shark, a close –yet smaller –relative […]
Rare ‘ghost shark’ caught on video for first time
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California captured the first-ever underwater footage of pointy-nosed blue chimaeras, a rare species of”ghost sharks,” while researching deepwater valleys around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of Central California. It also marks the first time the species, which was first discovered in 2002 off the coast of New Zealand, had […]
Dusky shark regulations not enough according to group
The wildlife conservation group, Oceana, announced on Friday that proposed regulations meant to protect dusky shark populations off the coast of the United States are not adequate to slow the species’ plummeting numbers. Under the new plan put forth by the National Marine Fisheries Service in October, stricter fishing regulations would be put in place for anglers […]
Drone video captures orca whales feeding on shark in California
A drone videographer captured footage of a pod of orca whales, including what appears to be a mother and her calves, preying on a a large shark off the coast of California earlier this week. Photographer Slater Moore recorded the footage from his drone while on a whale watching tour with Monterey Bay Whale Watch. “These whales […]
Extremely rare nurse shark spotted in Caicos
A diver off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands captured video of an extremely rare creature — a nurse shark with a dotted color scheme. Diver Nate Madden said the shark’s unusual coloring was a result of leucism, a condition that causes the partial loss of pigmentation in the skin, leading to […]