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A 15-year-old student has been bitten by a shark off Surfside beach in Texas on Monday afternoon, June 17. He managed to fight off the shark and survived the incident. According to KHOU, the young boy has suffered severe damage to his hand and one of his legs. The shark bit off part off his calf which has been remov... |
18 June 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Fossil remains belonging to a 408-year-old spiny shark species have recently been dug out in Spain. This particular species of spiny sharks has never been documented before.
Paleontologists explain that these animals thrived during the Devonian period, and that their appearance resembled both that of present-day sh... |
5 June 2013
04:50 GMT |
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89-year-old Bob Barker is yet to understand why some people would even consider shooting pigeons just for the fun of it.
The animal activist has recently teamed up with green group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK, for short).
The result of this collaboration is a video urging legislators in Pennsylvan... |
31 May 2013
08:13 GMT |
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The students at the Somerville College in Oxford are getting ready to attend a black tie event this coming May 4. Regardless of what they choose to wear, odds are the nursing shark the ball's organizers plan on hiring and putting on display will turn out to be the belle of the ball.
Although the ball's or... |
24 April 2013
03:14 GMT |
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A surfer from South Africa has defeated all odds by managing to survive for 27 hours in the Indian Ocean, swimming and floating with no life jacket.
Brett Archibald, a 50-year-old father of two, fell off the boat that was supposed to take him from Panang to the Mentawai Islands for a surfing trip.
Daily Mail wrote ... |
22 April 2013
08:57 GMT |
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An experienced angler from New South Wales in Australia has registered shark bites to both his legs during a fishing incident.
According to Gossipy, Alan Saunders had caught a shark in his net and was attempting to release it when he was spotted by a Grey Nurse. The shark bit him in shallow, knee-deep waters, leavin... |
22 April 2013
08:30 GMT |
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A kayak angler was caught on video while getting spooked by a shark on what he thought would be his average fishing trip.
Fisherman Isaac Brumaghim was off the coast of Oahu aiming to reel in some tuna on Sunday, April 7. He was accompanied by a friend with whom he has joined the 2013 Makahiki World Championships.
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11 April 2013
10:02 GMT |
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A 10-foot (3-meter) mako shark has been reeled in off a beach in Florida by shark angler Will Smith and his friend Bill Dunlop.
Smith posed with the behemoth, which was released the same night. The fish was captured just after midnight some two weeks ago.
According to Grind TV, it took 45 minutes for Smith and Dunl... |
10 April 2013
04:49 GMT |
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62-year-old Paul Marshallsea, of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, made the news for his dragging a 6-foot (1.8-m) shark back to sea, as it swam in shallow waters near a beach full of children.
However, his heroic act was caught on video and went viral online, prompting the man's dismissal from his job.
His acti... |
13 March 2013
12:23 GMT |
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Thousands of migrating spinner sharks have been sighted off the South Florida coastline, prompting beach closedowns in the Palm Beach area.
Marine biologists have confirmed that the footage shot by Chopper 5 and posted above reveals the presence of sharks, making the area unsafe for swimmers.
You can see the large ... |
7 March 2013
07:21 GMT |
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A man has died in a shark attack off the Auckland coast in New Zealand, reports say.
Documentary movie director Adam Strange was killed on February 27, while he was swimming near Muriwai beach. Strange has been awarded at the Berlin festival for a short film.
According to Stuff New Zealand, many school children wer... |
27 February 2013
17:25 GMT |
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The Helicoprion is an ancestor of the modern sharks now inhabiting our oceans. However, few can doubt the fact that, as scary as a great white shark's teeth might be, the Helicoprion's smile used to be significantly more frightful.
With the help of art scanners, a team of specialists have recently managed... |
27 February 2013
09:34 GMT |
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62-year-old Paul Marshallsea, from the UK, is somewhat of a hero after dragging a shark away from an area in which a lot of children swim, in Bulcock Beach, Australia. He heard people screaming “shark” as he was cooking and immediately rushed over and sprang into action, Daily Mail chronicles. You can s... |
21 January 2013
09:42 GMT |
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Researchers from the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia have decided to figure out what sharks are like before they become the alpha predators of the ocean.
The findings proved quite curious, in that it has been discovered that sharks are very much subject to predators' whims before growing... |
10 January 2013
10:44 GMT |
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Vampire Diaries star Steven McQueen recently decided to go shark fishing, supposedly for entertainment purposes alone.
Thus, he simply hopped on a boat, headed out towards the open waters and had some fun taking sharks out of their natural habitats only to take some pictures with them, sources say.
Wishing ... |
28 November 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Diver Mariko Haugen suffered a shark attack in Hawaii, while she was on holiday with her husband. The beast was 12 ft (3.7 meters long), but Mariko wasn't intimidated. The woman from Folsom, California, managed to escape the attack with no bites, all because of her knowledge of Tae Kwan Do. The Sun notes that,... |
1 November 2012
10:34 GMT |
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A 25-year-old surfer suffered a shark attack, off Bunker Surf Spot, North Jetty, in northern California, on October 30, at approximately 12:00 p.m.
A number of people were in the water at the time, and one witness drove the man to the hospital. Although he had been able to get to shore by himself, he was bleeding he... |
31 October 2012
13:51 GMT |
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A 51-year-old woman from California suffered a shark attack on Saturday, 20 yards (18 meters) off Makena Landing Beach Park in Maui.
Ocean Safety officials were prompted to close down beaches surrounding the location of the attack, from Maluaka Beach to Changs Beach, Maui County spokesman Rod Antone stated.
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30 October 2012
04:36 GMT |
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When it comes to taking pictures of sharks, most people prefer to keep their distance, and nobody can really blame them for choosing to do so.
However, Australian daredevil Sam Cahir recently decided to let go of almost all sense of self-preservation, get in the water with a shortfin Mako shark and go about his bus... |
27 October 2012
10:31 GMT |
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39-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr., of Orcutt, California has suffered a shark attack off Surf Beach in Lompoc, Santa Barbara, yesterday. The man's injuries were fatal.
The surfer was swimming off the Vanderberg Air Force Base beach, 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Los Angeles, which was open to tourists.... |
24 October 2012
03:58 GMT |
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The whale was discovered on Capricorn Beach, in the capital city of Cape Town, this Sunday. Its carcass reportedly measured 30 meters, or 98 feet. Movers required an industrial digger to remove the remains of the gigantic animal to a nearby landfill. The only question left lingering in everyone's minds is how a... |
10 October 2012
03:13 GMT |
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Due to the fact that shark attacks more often than not happen at incredible speeds, it is quite difficult to grasp their mastery of hunting techniques. However, thanks to this video showing shark attacks in slow motion, one can begin to understand how gifted these predators are, and why it is almost impossible for... |
28 September 2012
02:59 GMT |
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As mind-boggling as it may sound, one man recently got rescued after having spent 15 weeks drifting aimlessly in the Pacific Ocean.
Back in May, the Toakai Teitoi and his brother-in-law, Lelu Falaile, wished to sail from Kiribati to Maiana, yet somehow fell victim to the strong ocean currents and soon discovered th... |
18 September 2012
03:17 GMT |
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This past Saturday, local authorities in New England had no choice but to shut down two beaches, after a great white shark was found washed ashore by a fisherman.
Apparently, the man who first stumbled upon it believed that he just happened to come across a weird-looking piece of driftwood. However, a closer look r... |
3 September 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Chinese video card manufacturing company Colorful seems dead-set on taking the enthusiast graphics card market by storm. Now, the company revealed the preliminary design of its Shark Bionic Cooler. Colorful’s subsidiary brand called ColorFire has been in the news these days with its 120-millimeter cooling fan ... |
5 July 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Bad weather is not the only factor playing with the fate of the marine ecosystem affected by the hazardous oil spill generated by the crash of cargo ship Rena.The crew in charge of cleaning up the mess has recently revealed that the presence of sharks is a major obstacle for the success of their mission, Nzherald inf... |
19 December 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Starting next year, Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group will stop serving shark fin, one of the most popular and expensive delicacies, to tourists who will stay in its hotel and resort properties. Their initiative is appreciated by the WWF, whose officials think that this movement will be embraced by other chain hotel... |
25 November 2011
04:48 GMT |
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A third of the sharks, rays and skates on our planet are threatened with extinction, and mankind has something to do with it, as always, concluded a new study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The IUCN's Red List which gives the worldwide standard for assessing the conserva... |
2 November 2010
09:03 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced today the launch of a new series of mobile phones, a sleek, tactile and powerful range called Samsung Shark. There are three handsets currently included in the lineup, namely the candy bar Shark (S5350), and two slider phones Shark 2 (S5550) and Shark 3 (... |
14 January 2010
09:32 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Washington has come up with a group of complex underwater robots that use exactly the same swimming moves as fish to travel through the liquid medium. The robots are not relying on human remote control for their movement process, and are also able to communicate among the... |
31 October 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The second documented case of a female shark bearing a live young without ever being exposed to the presence of a male has recently been recorded. But this doesn't mean that there haven't been such cases before, even though they were not observed and analyzed by specialists. But before all feminist sup... |
10 October 2008
11:17 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature 11 species of sharks around the world are at high-risks of extinction, while another five show a significant decline. The reason is, as usual, over-fishing, which is affecting shark species especially due to their low rates of re... |
23 May 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Sharks are extremely sensitive to electric fields, and this enables them to detect their preys, as all living creatures emit weak electric fields. But this ability of the sharks comes with pros and cons: in captivity, sharks avoid metals reacting with seawater and producing an electric field. In fact, this may be the... |
23 April 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Sharks gained their dominance in the seas owing to their formidable teeth-jaws, speed and senses. For hunting, sharks are endowed with keen sight, olfaction and hearing (they pick up sounds from 2 km (1.2 mi) away). The lateral line helps them detect vibrations produced by a struggle in the water, like the convulsion... |
28 March 2008
07:46 GMT |
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The biology books say that sharks and rays make the group of cartilaginous fish, less evolved than most of the other species, that make the group of the bonny fish. Still, sharks, with their highly developed senses and teeth, make the top predators of the seas. Paradoxically, the two largest species of shark, that m... |
22 March 2008
07:53 GMT |
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Sharks are amongst the least understood creatures. A complex mythology depicting the shark as a mystical animal emerged in many cultures. Polynesian myths and legends talk about Kauhuhu, the shark god, which lives in a deep submarine cave or palace that cannot be seen by anybody. Up to 11 shark-gods are found in the ... |
15 March 2008
07:46 GMT |
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Well not really, because it's still cold outside. But just wait until summer, you'll see then; there will be flies and fly-spies all over the place, you won't be able to make the difference! Just kidding! Well, it seems that science fiction has given some 'mad' scientists new ideas, not that ... |
10 March 2008
12:22 GMT |
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It is difficult to trigger the sympathy of the audience with a giant conical head, a set of huge razor sharp serrated teeth, a carnivorous appetite, a malicious grin and a reputation of "man-eater". The slightest encounter with people is enough to fill the headlines. 1.With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This is a 290 million years old Russian doll, on a pattern shark-amphibian-fish. An extraordinary fossil preserved both the predator's last meal, and also the last meal of the prey, in a period long before the emergence of the dinosaurs, being the oldest snapshot of a vertebrate food chain, described in a new re... |
9 November 2007
04:01 GMT |
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Perhaps most of the things that we know about sharks come from the movies and documentaries presenting the terrible great white shark and the reef sharks. What else?1.Generally, sharks are carnivorous, eating from sea urchins to mollusks (including squids and octopuses), sea mammals (seals, dolphins and whales), sea ... |
9 October 2007
17:16 GMT |
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It's not so hard to be a hacker these days. You don't have to be a geek to know a lot of script. Now, hackware has a nice interface and even comes with support! I guess that the hardest part is to get inside one of these communities because then you can simply buy the software and with so many sites and use... |
4 September 2007
09:26 GMT |
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This is the most dangerous and spectacular predatory fish: with a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ft) long and up to 3.4 tons heavy, the white shark can kill from fish (sharks included) to large seals and dolphins. Swimmers and surfers (and sometimes even boats) have no chance. Now a digital analysis of a gr... |
3 September 2007
03:26 GMT |
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You may have heard about cats with "wings", two-headed tortoises, snakes, piglets and even humans, extra-limbed lambs, pigs, deer, cows or humans, but this is far odder: a footed shark. This is extremely weird as sharks do not have and never had feet in their whole evolution. Maybe one day, the Great White will be ru... |
15 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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With a strong rocket-like body, up to 7.2 m (24 ft) long and up to 3.4 tons heavy, the white shark hunts from fish (including other sharks) to seals and dolphins. They can suddenly attack swimmers, surfers or boats, sinking them, but humans do not seem to represent their favorite dish. They bite once and release the ... |
1 August 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Sharks have pervaded the Earth for over 450 million years, before any plant or animal got out of the water and colonized the terrestrial surface. Now they face extinction due to a human caprice: fin shark soup. This dish could cause extinction within a generation due to overfishing for their fins, has signaled on We... |
19 July 2007
06:15 GMT |
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There are more and more mysteries about the sharks' reproductive abilities, besides the already known facts, like the double penis and the siblings' intrauterine cannibalism. Recently, the first case of asexual reproduction (parthenogenesis) among sharks has been documented, a hammerhead female shark at a N... |
26 June 2007
06:10 GMT |
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Mystery is what some of us live for. I will not get psychological or philosophical on you, but curiosity is the most precious thing that humans have... the need that drives them to know more and automatically to learn more...Anyway, going back to our problem, for this week's game, the issue is still "mystery". W... |
22 June 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Indeed, sharks possess amazing traits. They are believed not to develop cancer. As they lack blood vessels in cartilage, preclinical studies were made on them supporting the idea that they may contain inhibitors of angiogenesis (blood vessel formation), as cancer cells feed themselves by angiogenesis. But the first ... |
4 June 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Just a drop of blood and the place is infested with sharks: these fishes are famous for their keen sense of smell. But a new investigation made by Boston University marine biologists reveals that sharks use not only their nose in detecting the smell of their prey; they also use their skin, more precisely their latera... |
30 May 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Sharks have many issues of their own in the reproductive domain, from double penis in case of males to intrauterine cannibalism. Now, another odd trait adds to their reproductive peculiarities: female sharks can give birth without fertilization. The new mix Northern Ireland-U.S. research investigated the DNA of a ham... |
23 May 2007
12:56 GMT |
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