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Great White That Crossed Atlantic May Be Pregnant

Lydia has swum 19.4K miles in a year

(Newser) - A great white named Lydia recently made shark history: This weekend, she became the first of her kind known to have crossed from the western to the eastern Atlantic. That happened when she crossed a boundary known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . Days later, she's already making more headlines. Researcher...

World's Biggest Shark Slaughterhouse Exposed

China factory turns whale sharks into fish oil

(Newser) - Huge numbers of sharks from endangered species are being slaughtered and turned into products including health supplements at a giant slaughterhouse in China, a conservation group has discovered. Investigators from WildLifeRisk found that more than 600 whale sharks are slaughtered at the factory every year, along with large numbers of...

Sharks Live Longer Than We Thought

73-year-old great white identified

(Newser) - Great white sharks that manage to stay out of the soup pot can live to much greater ages than earlier realized, according to new research. Using tests that measure radiation from atmospheric nuclear tests, scientists identified a male great white that lived to be around 73 years old and a...

Leo DiCaprio: I Was Almost Eaten by Shark

'Gigantic' great white got into cage with him

(Newser) - Apparently sharks find Leonardo DiCaprio just as tasty-looking as teen girls everywhere do. The actor revealed to Ellen DeGeneres yesterday that he was once nearly eaten by a great white: He often gets up close and personal with wildlife as part of his work with his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which...

Surfer: 'Amazing' Morning —Til That Shark Bit Me

Jay Scrivner describes Northern California attack

(Newser) - It was a perfect day for surfing. Except for the shark. Jay Scrivner, a 45-year-old college English teacher, was waiting for waves off the Northern California coast near his hometown of Eureka on Sunday morning when a great white shark he estimated at about 8- to 9-feet-long bit his thigh...

Shark Taggers Have Scary News for Beachgoers
 Shark Taggers Have 
 Scary News for Beachgoers 
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Sep 7, 2013 1:20 PM CDT

Shark Taggers Have Scary News for Beachgoers

...but it's actually good news, they say

(Newser) - Great white sharks are a lot more fond of beaches than previously believed, according to researchers who have tagged more than 100 sharks. The project has revealed plenty of surprising information about the predators' lifestyles, including the fact that they can swim 3,000 miles in just three months and...

Surprise Study: Great Whites Eat Often

Study rejects notion they go 6 weeks without feeding

(Newser) - Great white sharks are a lot hungrier than scientists realized, a new study suggests. The old line of thinking, based on research done in the 1980s, is that a great white could snack on, say, a 60-pound seal pup and go six weeks without another meal. As it turns out,...

NZ Shark Victim Was Award-Winning Director

New Zealand victim identified as Adam Strange

(Newser) - The swimmer killed today by what witnesses say was a "huge" shark was Adam Strange, an award-winning short film and commercial director, Sky News reports. After the rare attack in New Zealand, police in inflatable boats shot at and hit the shark, which is believed to have been a...

Shark Attacks Calif. Surfer
 Shark Attacks Calif. Surfer 
Oct 31, 2012 12:32 AM CDT

Shark Attacks Calif. Surfer

He survives with serious injuries

(Newser) - Another California surfer has been attacked by a shark, but unlike last week's victim , he survived the experience. The 25-year-old man was hospitalized with serious injuries after being bitten while surfing in Humboldt County, the Eureka Times-Standard reports. A group of fellow surfers scrambled to save the man's...

Shark Kills Calif. Surfer
 Shark Kills Calif. Surfer 
Oct 24, 2012 12:47 AM CDT

Shark Kills Calif. Surfer

2nd deadly attack in 2 years off air base's beach

(Newser) - A 39-year-old California man was killed by a massive shark bite to the torso while surfing off the coast of Vandenberg Air Force Base yesterday. Fellow surfers pulled the man to shore and tried to administer CPR but he was pronounced dead at the scene, the Los Angeles Times reports....

Australia Will Now Kill Sharks on Sight

Spate of attacks prompts controversial new policy on west coast

(Newser) - Australia has seen a big increase in shark attacks in recent years, including a record five deaths in 2012—all of which is bad news for swimmers and now for sharks as well. The state of Western Australia has put into place an aggressive new policy to track and kill...

Eco Groups to US: Make Move on Great White Sharks

Petition filed to list one population as endangered species

(Newser) - The latest endangered species is one conventionally feared as more harmful to us than the other way around: the great white shark. Environmental groups want the northeastern Pacific Ocean population added to the endangered species list, the Los Angeles Times reports. The population off California's coast, a genetically distinct...

Cape Cod Deals With Return of Great Whites

It would help if people stopped swimming near seals, say experts

(Newser) - After a kayaker's close call was followed by Massachusetts' first great white shark attack since 1936 , authorities have some advice for Cape Cod swimmers: Stay away from seals. More than 300,000 grey seals now live in the area—30 times more than in the '60s—and their...

Great White Blamed for Cape Cod Attack

Attack would be first in Mass. since 1936

(Newser) - A Massachusetts swimmer has been hospitalized with serious leg injuries after what experts believe was an attack by a great white shark—the state's first since 1936. Witnesses said they saw a dorsal fin break the water near where the man was swimming off Cape Cod, reports the Boston ...

Cape Cod Kayaker 'Paddled Like No Tomorrow'

'Turned into a professional' when he saw great white shark

(Newser) - Walter Szulc Jr. was kayaking for the first time when he was tailed by a great white shark but he says he started paddling like a pro when he spotted it. "To actually see it, to see the fin come out of the water behind me, it was a...

Cape Cod Kayaker Dodges Great White

Man has close encounter on 1st kayak trip

(Newser) - It might be a while before Walter Szulc Jr. decides it's safe to go back in the water. He was kayaking—for the first time—at a Cape Cod beach on the weekend when he saw the fin of a great white shark longer than his kayak just 10...

Sharks Spark Cape Cod Swim Ban

'He was big and he was close,' warns spotter

(Newser) - Sightings of at least two great white sharks —one 16 feet long—stalking the waters off Cape Cod have triggered a swimming ban at the popular summer tourist spot during one of busiest times of the year. One shark was spotted a half mile from shore; the other was...

Fishermen Net 2,000-Pound King of Jaws

Boat, great white had to be towed to shore

(Newser) - A pair of Mexican fisherman cast their net wide, and captured a monster: a 2,000-pound great white. The 20-foot long shark was nabbed in the Sea of Cortez off Guaymas. "We were amazed when we realized that we had a huge, dead, great white shark, and then we...

Great White Attacks Swimmer Who Ignored Warnings

Part of both of Michael Cohen's legs were bitten off today in Cape Town

(Newser) - A reminder to those who like to buck authority: You should at least heed warnings related to great white sharks. A 42-year-old British expat had parts of both his legs bitten off in an attack in Cape Town today, after going for a swim though shark warning flags were flying,...

Aussie Dies After Shark Bites Off Legs

Officials still searching for killer shark, bodyboarder's limbs

(Newser) - An Australian bodyboarder met a gruesome end today when a shark attacked, biting off his legs and killing him as some 30 other surfers lingered in the water in western Australia. Authorities closed the beach near Dunsborough immediately, and are still searching for the shark, reports the AP. "We...

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