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Man beats up great white shark to save wife

On Saturday, Chantelle Doyle, 35, was surfing off the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia when a great white shark bit into her leg and wouldn't let go. Her husband, surfing nearby, punched...

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Massive "grandmother" great white shark tagged in northwest Atlantic

US shark researchers tagged the largest great white shark they've ever encountered in the northwest Atlantic. The shark, named Nukumi after the Mi'kmaq word for "grandmother," is more than 16 feet...

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At least 6 sharks have washed up on shores with swordfish swords stabbed...

The New York Times reports: Since [September 2016] at least six more sharks have washed up on Mediterranean coasts, each impaled with the same murder weapon, and almost always in the head. In the...

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Australian drones monitor beaches, and not just for sharks

Shark-detecting drones have been commonplace over Australian beaches for a while now. The same skyward technology is now spying for large groups of people. As the summer season ramps up down under...

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Surfer who survived brutal shark attack finally given legal exemption to keep...

In 2015, Chris Blowes was surfing off the South Australia coast when an 18-foot great white shark attacked him. Blowes, 32, lost his leg and was in a coma for 10 days. The police officers who found his...

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This man was killed by a shark attack 3,000 years ago

When archaeologists were studying the 3,000-year-old skeletal remains of a man dug up near Japan's Seto Inland Sea, they were confused by the nearly 800 serrated injuries they found to the bones....

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Watch The Ridiculous New Trailer For Steven Kang's SHARKS OF THE CORN

In case Sharknado somehow wasn't enough for you, Steven Kang's Sharks of the Corn takes carnivorous fish out of the ocean and into a…cornfield? Sure. Here's the synopsis: Strange things are happening...

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Scientists: Don't call them shark "attacks" anymore. They are "encounters"...

Australian scientists and government agencies are officially discouraging the use of the phrase of "shark attack." Rather, they are "negative encounters" that might result in "bites." The Queensland...

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Look at this weirdo pig-faced shark found in the Mediterranean Sea

Naval officers spotted this freaky pig-faced shark floating dead off the coast of Elba, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. It's an angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina) that's nicknamed "pig...

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"Colorado is tied for state with the least shark attacks!" tweets proud governor

Gov. Jared Polis is pretty proud of his state, and the quality of their weed is evident. Colorado is tied for state with the least shark attacks! 🦈 pic.twitter.com/mMI8HAZGra— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis)...

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Great white shark attacks on people really are honest mistakes, scientists show

Great white sharks rarely bite people (even though we hear about them when they do), but new research from Macquarie University supports the old theory that attacks are actually the result of mistaken...

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Shark Conservancy Discovers "very Chunky" Great White

On November 3, 2021, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy posted the following update on Facebook: There are some sharks that make our data team stop and take a double-take. One of our data team...

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Watch: Florida man hooks a shark which a bald eagle promptly swipes from him

In Dunedin, Florida, Chad Rissman and his uncle Darrin Vick spent the day fishing but had no luck. Finally at dusk, a tiny shark took the bait. But just as Vick began to reel in his catch, a beautiful...

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More shark attacks happen during the full moon

Perhaps sharks are water werewolves. Marine biologists studied more than 50 years of global data from the International Shark Attack File and found a clear correlation between shark attacks and the...

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Shark attacks up more than 30%!!!!

Shark attacks are up by more than 30%, according to reports. Do you think it's because of a resumption of human activity that dipped during the pandemic, or because of the George Floyd protests? Last...

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Meet Scot, a 1,600 pound great white shark swimming around Florida

This is Scot, a 1,600 pound great white shark currently swimming around Florida's Gulf Coast. According to marine research group OCEARCH, Scot is more than 12-feet-long. They first found and tagged...

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Kid from "Jaws" is now police chief on the island where the movie was made

Nearly 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg travelled to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts to film an upcoming movie about a great white shark. A local kid named Jonathan Searle scored a small...

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Volcano "full of sharks" erupts

Back in 2015, a group of researchers discovered a volcano full of sharks. Dubbed "Sharkcano," the underwater magma crater heated up the water around it — and rather than kill off the local marine...

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Watch a shark attack a stingray at an aquarium, all to the delight of the...

At New Jersey's Adventure Aquarium, a hammerhead shark cohabitating with a stingray decides the tank isn't big enough for the both of them. "Don't do that! That's mean!" exclaims one of the young...

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Watch: Sea turtle flips the odds in a fight with a tiger shark

A photographer captured this battle off the Australia's Ningaloo Coast in which a tiger shark went after a sea turtle. Impressively, the sea turtle flipped itself over in the water so its shell was...

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