Sharks

4+ hour, 3+ min ago   (140+ words) Contender's recent track according to Ocearch (via Ocearch) Another wayward great white shark is wowing researchers and casual observers alike with his epic journey to Newfoundland waters. Contender is a 1,600 pound, 13 foot, 9 inch male, tagged by the American research group…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago   (357+ words) The north Atlantic analysts are still gobsmacked over the number of killer sharks lurking off the Maine coast. Atlantic writer – the magazine named for the briny? – Tyler Austin Harper has come up with yet-another attempt at trying to figure out…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (284+ words) Contender, a 14-foot, 1,600 pound adult male great white shark was tagged by OCEARCH in January near the Florida/Georgia line. The nonproft works to research ocean life by tracking their locations throughout their lives. Contender, the largest male white shark…...

17+ hour, 35+ min ago   (729+ words) Ancient jaws preserved for 100 million years reveal an ocean predator eerily worthy of the kraken name. For centuries, Scandinavian sailors told of a sea monster big enough to pull ships beneath the ocean. The kraken moved from oral tradition into…...

1+ day, 2+ hour 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:…...

2+ day, 3+ 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…...

1+ day, 19+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 18+ hour 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, 23+ 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…...

2+ day, 7+ 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....