Sharks

4+ hour, 45+ min ago   (610+ words) A captive shark vomited a tattooed human arm, exposing a bizarre Sydney murder mystery involving smugglers, fraud and a deadly speedboat chase. On Anzac Day in 1935, visitors crowded around a tank at Sydney’s Coogee Aquarium to see its newest attraction:…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (305+ words) More rare creatures are being spotted off California's coastline as a historic El Niño heats up the Pacific Ocean. Carl Sbarounis has worked since the late 1970s as a spotter for commercial fisheries. Flying above the California coast, Sbarounis seeks out…...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (849+ words) Before last summer, Australians often perceived shark predation as an out-of-sight, out-of-mind risk endemic to remote communities. Then came the string of attacks, two of them fatal, at beaches off the nation’s most populous coastline. The most recent involved young…...

21+ hour, 20+ min ago   (243+ words) The Economic Times An enormous whale shark has been spotted swimming along the California coastline near Malibu, capturing attention after video of the massive creature surfaced The endangered whale shark, known as the world’s largest fish, was seen moving…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (185+ words) A dramatic video posted to Instagram shows a huge whale shark swimming off the Southern California coastline. The post put the estimated size of the sea creature at 14 to 16 feet long. It was spotted between Santa Barbara Island and Malibu…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (38+ words) Los Angeles Times Rare whale shark sighting near Malibu captured on video Southern California pilot Carl Sbarounis recently captured footage of a whale shark off the coast of Malibu....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (757+ words) Before last summer, Australians often perceived shark predation as an out-of-sight, out-of-mind risk endemic to remote communities. Then came the string of attacks, two of them fatal, at beaches off the nation’s most populous coastline. The most recent involved young…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (380+ words) Carl Sbarounis was flying his plane over the ocean, scouting for fish as a commercial fisherman, when a friend called him with news of a rare sighting: A giant whale shark cruising through the blue Pacific waters. It took him…...

2+ day, 45+ min ago   (427+ words) In the chill of January, scientists from Ocearch found themselves face-to-face with a veritable giant off the Atlantic coast, an encounter that quickly rippled across the marine research world. Known as “Contender,” this massive male great white shark was captured…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (495+ words) What is believed to be the first genomic study of white sharks in the Western North Atlantic has yielded fascinating results that are helping scientists further understand these apex predators and their patterns. A recent DNA study conducted by OCEARCH…...