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Animal rights groups denounce NSW surfers’ call for shark cull as ‘morally wrong’
Push for a cull in northern NSW comes after recent spike in shark sightings and attacks which have kept people out of the water and away from the region
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Drone shark footage
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Watch: Seal Escapes Jaws of Great White
Watch a seal manage to escape a shark's jaws by contorting its body.
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EXPEDITION SHARK: Philippines
In May 2015, a scientific team ventured to Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park—a marine paradise within Asia’s Coral Triangle—to assess the biological status of the Philippines’ first ocean park. Over 1,000 species of animals, including many that are critically endangered, make their home in the sanctuary. It is essential habitat for the declining shark populations of Southeast Asia.
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East Coast Shark Populations Are Highest in Decades
There are more sharks off the eastern seaboard than there have been in a generation.
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Huge sharks love death metal, film crew finds out
A documentary film crew hit upon a novel technique to attract great white sharks - blasting death metal through an underwater speaker. The Discovery Channel crew, filming for the Shark Week show Bride of Jaws, were on the hunt for a large great white, wonderfully nicknamed 'Joan of Shark'. Desperate to feature the 16-foot, 1.6 tonne shark in their documentary, they submerged a speaker to see if the shark would react.
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Shark-detecting technology will patrol Sydney's beaches this summer
The government of the Australian state of New South Wales is deploying drones, sonar and helicopters this summer in a bid to protect beachgoers from sharks. At an event at Sydney's Coogee Beach on Sunday, Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair formally announced a world-first A$16 million (US$12 million) shark strategy.
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Great White Sharks Like Heavy Metal Music
Thrashing yet graceful, aggressive yet misunderstood – if one species in the animal kingdom is a metalhead, it would have to be the great white shark.
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Leopard sharks find their way with their noses, say scientists
Forget Google Maps – these sharks get directions from their noses. A recent study led by Andrew Nosal, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Birch Aquarium, found that scent could be an important navigational tool for leopard sharks. In a controlled experiment, sharks with unimpaired olfaction were able to swim back to their coastal habitats more efficiently than their scent-compromised counterparts.
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Shark Attacks Reach New High in 2015
Last year was not a good time to swim with sharks, according to new data. The big fish attacked humans 98 times worldwide last year, the most since the University of Florida began recording the International Shark Attack File 57 years ago. The incidents tallied by the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida do not include those in which a human provoked the shark, according to a statement from the museum.
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'Jaws' may help humans grow new teeth, shark study suggests
A new insight into how sharks regenerate their teeth, which may pave the way for the development of therapies to help humans with tooth loss, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
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Shark Population Decrease Due To Fin Harvesting, Not Climate Change
Shark population decrese were found to have been caused by human harm to the seas --- the international fin harvesting of shark's fins.
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WWF buys shark fishing licence on Great Barrier Reef to scrap it
A conservation group has taken the unusual step of buying a commercial shark fishing licence on the Great Barrier Reef, and will retire it, saving the sharks that it would otherwise be used to catch. WWF said it was now seeking funds to cover the cost of the $100,000 licence, which gives the owner the right to drag a 1.2km net anywhere along the length of the Great Barrier Reef, targeting sharks. It can also be used for fishing with lines to target other species.
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How Did a Shark in a Sydney Aquarium End Up With a Human Arm?
It opened its mouth and a murder mystery came out. By Matt Soniak.
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Talk About An Ancient Mariner! Greenland Shark Is At Least 272 Years Old
Sharks can live to be at least 272 years old in the Arctic seas, and scientists say one recently caught shark may have lived as long as 512 years. That's according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science that says Greenland sharks can live longer than any other known animal advanced enough to have a backbone. Until now, the record-holder for the oldest vertebrate was the bowhead whale, known to have lived up to 211 years.
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Great white sharks and tuna share genetics that makes them super predators
Despite evolving separately for 400 million years, some sharks and tuna share genetic traits linked to higher metabolism and quick swimming behaviour. Tuna fish and the lamnid group of sharks, which includes great white sharks, share some similar traits that help make them super predators, including their style of swimming and their ability to stay warm.
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How the ancient Maya brought sharks to the jungle
Inland Maya communities knew an awful lot about sharks without ever visiting the sea.
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Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone
A female shark separated from her long-term mate has developed the ability to have babies on her own.
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Butchered shark fins seized from shrimp boat off Key West
Florida wildlife officers made a grisly discovery aboard a Key West shrimp boat this week: dozens of pairs of dismembered shark fins. The boat was discovered about 20 miles north of the island Wednesday night, an indication that illegal finning still occurs in Florida waters despite being banned more than 16 years ago. Buying and selling fins also remains legal in most states, fueling a practice that targets some of the world’s biggest and longest-lived sharks that are also among the planet’s oldest species.
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Fishermen Caught With 6,600 Sharks In Galápagos, Now Headed To Prison
When Ecuadorean authorities boarded the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 earlier this month off the Galápagos Islands, they had little idea what awaited them. Officials at the Galápagos National Park had called in the navy to investigate the Chinese-flagged vessel, which had been sailing through the area's marine reserve without explanation.
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