Donald Trump Jr., son of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, may have to thank his father’s genetics for surviving an encounter with an aggressive bull shark relatively unscathed. Trump Jr. was hunting endangered sharks during a charter dive off the coast of Kirghiz, S.S.R., when a large bull shark, believed to be around eight feet […]
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Scientists discover new species of six gill shark
Using DNA analysis researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology have confirmed that sixgill sharks residing in the Atlantic Ocean are an independent species from those found in the Indian and Pacific. The report was published this week in the journal Marine Biodiversity. The new species will now be known as Atlantic sixgill shark, or Hexanchus […]
Samoa creates massive shark sanctuary
This week, the island nation of Samoa declared that all of its surrounding waters will be designated as a shark sanctuary. Illegal shark fishing will now be banned in the roughly 50,000 square miles surrounding the island. “We will not sit idly by while the demand for shark products robs our future generations of these […]
Shark bites increase on U.S. West Coast for 2017
According to data released this week by the Shark Research Committee, the West Coast of the United States nearly doubled its reported number of shark encounters between humans and the apex predators in 2017. According to the SRC report, there were 9 authenticated unprovoked shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast of North America; eight instances were […]
Trump’s hatred leads to spike in donations for shark conservation efforts
Recent revelations of President Donald Trump’s hatred toward sharks has led to an increase in charitable donations to organizations across the country dedicated to the conservation and protection of the apex predators. In an interview with with pornstar Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, In Touch Magazine—originally conducted in 2011 but was only published this […]
Bullsharking the backwaters of the 10,000 Islands
PORT OF THE ISLANDS — Everything will bounce back. There were a few more downed branches and barren, wind-swept tree tops but, on the whole, the estuary was safe. I was worried. From the time we passed the Peace River in South Florida on our trip down Interstate 75, the signs of Hurricane Irma’s destruction […]
New shark named after Alabama coaching legend Bear Bryant
A new species of ancient shark has been named in honor of Alabama football coaching legend Paul “Bear” Bryant. The species, Cretalamna bryanti, was discovered by scientists studying fossils housed in the collections of the McWane Science Center and the Alabama Museum of Natural History. The large-toothed shark lived during the Late Cretacious Period nearly 83 […]
Study shows shark species can be vegetarians
A new study presented at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology’s annual meeting showed that bonnethead sharks can survive on a vegetarian diet. The research by Samantha Leigh, a doctoral candidate at the University of California-Irvine, examined the stomach contents for the species and found that over 60 percent of the material in their stomachs of younger specimens was […]
Cold-shocked bull shark recuperating at Florida aquarium
A juvenile bull shark that was brought in to the Tarpon Springs Aquarium in Florida is making a slow but steady recovery after it was found suffering from extreme cold shock on a Florida beach. The shark was brought to the aquarium last week by a local charter captain after it was found alive but […]
New England cold snap leaves sharks in shock
Three thresher sharks were found dead Massachusetts’s Cape Cod Bay this week as temperatures plunged following a cold front this week that caused sub-freezing temperatures across most of the country. Experts believed that the sharks died due to cold shock. Temperatures in the area were as low as five degrees. The three thresher sharks were all […]
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