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Blue shark: Prionace glauca: Carcharhinidae Near threatened [11] Blue shark: Pacific sharpnose shark: Rhizoprionodon longurio: Carcharhinidae Vulnerable [12] Pacific sharpnose shark: Dusky shark: Carcharhinus obscurus: Carcharhinidae Endangered [13] Dusky shark with a cobia at SeaWorld: Bull shark: Carcharhinus leucas: Carcharhinidae Vulnerable ...
The attack occurred at Surf Beach near Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, just two years (almost to the very day) after a fatal attack in the same location. Authorities from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office positively identified the species involved in the attack as a 15–16 feet (4.6–4.9 m) great white ...
A man swimming near Grey Whale Cove State Beach in Northern California was bitten by a shark on Saturday and is now in serious condition at a hospital.
Out of nowhere, two giant blue whales rose from under Captain CiCi Sayer and Dale Frink's boat off the coast of San Diego July 2, casting them into the ocean. Thankfully neither was hurt ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swimmers and surfers today are about 90 percent less likely to be attacked by sharks off California's coast than they were in the 1950s, even though there are hundreds of ...
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 m (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 t (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed.
The 2016 yearly total of 81 shark attacks worldwide was on par with the most recent five-year (2011–2015) average of 82 incidents annually. [18] By contrast, the 98 shark attacks in 2015 was the highest yearly total on record. [18]
Unprovoked shark attacks are rare: There were just 36 attacks in the U.S. last year, including two in California, one of them fatal, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark ...