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Deep Blue is a female great white shark that is estimated to be 6.1 m (20 ft) long or larger and is now sixty years old. She is believed to be one of the largest ever recorded in history. The shark was first spotted in Mexico by researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla. Deep Blue was featured on the Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
The largest male white shark ever caught, tagged and released is approaching Florida's east coast, near Jacksonville.. Contender, a 13.8-foot, 1,653 pound adult shark, was tagged on Jan. 17 in the ...
Greenland shark meat is produced and eaten in Iceland where, today, it is known as a delicacy called hákarl. To make the shark safe for human consumption, it is first fermented and then dried in a process that can take multiple months. The shark was traditionally fermented by burying the meat in gravel pits near the ocean for at least several ...
A 12-foot-9-inch great white shark dubbed "Vimy," which was captured off the northeastern coast of the U.S., had two big bite marks on his head and body made by an even larger shark, researchers say.
In 2012, a sturgeon estimated to be 125 years old was caught in a river in Wisconsin. [100] Tardigrades, capable of cryptobiosis, have been shown to survive nearly 120 years in a dry state. [101] The great white shark is estimated to live for 70+ years, making it one of the longest lived cartilaginous fishes currently known. [102]
The largest male white shark ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH was spotted in Florida waters. The shark, named Contender, was first tagged and released by OCEARCH on Jan. 17.
A great white shark in Scituate was recently captured in a too-close-for-comfort video coming snout to lens with an underwater camera operated by the Cape-based Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
His major scientific discoveries have been the satellite tracking of Nicole (a 3.6 m great white shark) on a return migration from South Africa to Australia and back, and documenting the great white shark hunting Cape fur seal at night time, a previously unknown behavior. Between 2001 and 2005 Johnson conducted research on the controversial ...