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A great white shark was captured near Kangaroo Island in Australia on 1 April 1987. This shark was estimated to be more than 6.9 m (23 ft) long by Peter Resiley, [67] [73] and has been designated as KANGA. [72] Another great white shark was caught in Malta by Alfredo Cutajar on 16 April 1987. This shark was also estimated to be around 7.13 m ...
Carcharodon (meaning "jagged/sharp tooth" in Ancient Greek) [2] is a genus of sharks within the family Lamnidae, colloquially called the "white sharks." The only extant member is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Extinct species include C. hubbelli and C. hastalis. [3]
Based on allometric scaling of a great white shark, Shimada found that such individual would have weighed as much as 3,400 kilograms (3.3 long tons; 3.7 short tons). [ 34 ] A remeasurement conducted by Newbrey et al. (2013) found that C. mantelli and C. agassizensis reached sexual maturity at around four to five years of age and proposed a ...
Travis Bogin has joined the fraternity of people that have had a chance encounter with a great white shark in the wild off the New Jersey coast.
Jekyll is a male juvenile great white shark that weighed almost 400 pounds and measured over eight feet when it was tagged last year while swimming in the waters off Jekyll Island, Georgia, one of ...
Footage shows a gigantic, adult, 1,653-pound great white shark getting tagged for research last month. The 13-foot, 9-inch predator, Contender, was tagged on Jan. 17 near the Florida-Georgia ...
Mackerel sharks, also called white sharks, are large, fast-swimming sharks, found in oceans worldwide. They include the great white, the mako, porbeagle shark, and salmon shark. Mackerel sharks have pointed snouts, spindle-shaped bodies, and gigantic gill openings. The first dorsal fin is large, high, stiff and angular or somewhat rounded.
A massive great white shark, known to be somewhat of an "artist," paid a rare summer visit off the Palm Beach County coast − just one day after Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week' ended. The 13 ...