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The longest a great white was held in captivity was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in September 2004. A young female was kept in an outdoor tank for 198 days before releasing her back into the wild. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending its program in 2011. [3]
Great white shark near Gansbaai, showing upper and lower teeth. In the Northwest Atlantic mature great whites are known to feed on both harbor and grey seals. [51] Unlike adults, juvenile white sharks in the area feed on smaller fish species until they are large enough to prey on marine mammals such as seals. [129]
A juvenile great white shark swims in the aquarium's Open Sea exhibit in 2006. In 1984, Monterey Bay Aquarium's first attempt to display a great white shark lasted 11 days, ending when the shark died because it did not eat. [ 52 ]
Where there were once thousands of vaquitas swimming in the sea, today there may only be about 10 individuals remaining. The vaquita wasn’t discovered until 1958.
A great white shark that washed ashore at a Cape Cod beach earlier this week is named Koala, and was known to local researchers, investigators said. Its cause of death is still a mystery, as a ...
Nicknamed 'Deep Blue,' this great white is almost as long as the 22-foot-long boat the researchers were aboard near Guadalupe, Mexico, nearly 165 miles away from mainland. She is one of the ...
The White Shark Café is a remote mid-Pacific Ocean area noted as a winter and spring habitat of otherwise coastal great white sharks. The area, halfway between Baja California and Hawaii , received its unofficial name in 2002 from researchers at Stanford University 's Hopkins Marine Station who were studying great white sharks by using ...
After surfacing off Vero Beach on Jan. 17, the 9-foot 6-inch male shark nicknamed "Simon," made his way south and pinged near the Stuart coast at 12:03 a.m. on Saturday.