This picture on Twitter of a hammerhead shark with their dorsal fin missing as it has been amputated by cruel fishermen selling shark fins to the shark fin soup businesses makes me thoroughly sick of humankind. Frankly, when I see this sort of picture, I am sick to death of humans and their rank cruelty. …
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Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts. How did they know it was chasing a seagull and got too excited! And are sharks sometimes this careless? Was the shark ill? Or did they lose their bearings because of sonar used by submarines? A lot of questions and no answers. The guys who rescued the shark knew what they …
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There is an extraordinary story in The Times today of a notorious pair of killer whales (orcas) which killed 17 sharks in one day. You might know that orcas have a taste for liver. They only ate the livers of the 17 sharks. Just gaping holes in the side of each shark. And the event …
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The question is asking whether the shark attacks on people that we read about are the result of a small number of rogue sharks who have a grudge against the human race and repeatedly attack humans swimming offshore. One scientist believes that there is such an animal. His name is Prof Clua. He works at …
The world’s oldest fish species is the Greenland shark. They are described as the oceans’ oldest fish. They can take 150 years to reach sexual maturity and live for up to 4 centuries (400 years) and perhaps longer. In 2016, researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of 28 Greenland sharks. They estimated that …
There is a battle going on between the swordfish and the shark in the Mediterranean Sea. The experts aren’t sure whether sharks killed by swordfish are due to an accident or a deliberate killing over a fight for territory and/or prey animals. Prey animals are being diminished in the Mediterranean Sea by human overfishing. Pointing …
NEWS AND OPINION: To be accurate, many shark species are already endangered in part because of shark fin soup. However, the news today is that a vaccine against coronavirus may result in the slaughter of 500,000 sharks in order to harvest an oil from their livers called squalene, which is used as an adjuvant, an …
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You may remember the story from Shelley Beach in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia in which a woman was attacked by a 10 foot juvenile great white shark. Her name is Chantelle Doyle and she suffered extensive injuries to one of her legs. Her husband who was nearby jumped on top of the shark …
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Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia: Chantelle Doyle was enjoying a Saturday-morning surf with her friends when she was attacked by a 10 foot juvenile great white shark. The shark had grabbed her by her right leg. She instantly suffered severe injuries to her leg. She screamed piercingly. One bystander said that …
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