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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.
Carcharomodus is an extinct genus of lamnid shark.Its only species is Carcharomodus escheri, [1] commonly nicknamed the serrated mako shark or Escher's mako shark.It is an extinct lamnid that lived during the Miocene and that was formerly thought to have been transitional between the broad-toothed "mako" Cosmopolitodus hastalis and the modern great white, but is now considered to be an ...
The value of shark fins for shark fin soup has led to an increase in shark catches where usually only the fins are taken, while the rest of the shark is discarded, typically into the sea; health concerns about BMAA in the fins now exists regarding consumption of the soup A 4.3-metre (14 ft), 540-kilogram (1,200 lb) tiger shark caught in Kāne ...
The mature female shark has two ovaries and a uterus, which is in the right side of her body; ovulation occurs fortnightly; and pregnancy ceases vitellogenesis (yolk formation) and the production of new ova. [16] Both ovulated eggs and early-stage shark embryos are enclosed in chondrichthyes, ellipsoid egg-cases made of a thin, golden-brown ...
Acanthodii or acanthodians is an extinct class of gnathostomes (jawed fishes).They are currently considered to represent a paraphyletic grade of various fish lineages basal to extant Chondrichthyes, which includes living sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
Autopsy report concluded Escartin was bitten by a shark off Key West, Monroe County, Florida, while still alive. William S. Weaver, 15: December 13, 1958: Tiger shark: While surfing near the Mokulua Islands off Lanikai, Oahu, Hawaii, Weaver was killed when his leg was severed. Rescue personnel recovering his body two hours later observed a 15 ...
Only a single species, G. cuvier, the tiger shark, is extant. [1] The earliest fossils date back to the early Eocene epoch, ( Ypresian ), around 56–47.8 Million years ago. [ 2 ] While historically considered a member of the requiem shark family Carcharhinidae , it is currently considered to be the only member of the family Galeocerdonidae . [ 3 ]
Cladoselache is an extinct genus of shark-like chondrichthyan (cartilaginous fish) from the Late Devonian of North America. It was similar in body shape to modern lamnid sharks (such as mako sharks and the great white shark ), but was not closely related to lamnids or to any other modern ( selachian ) shark.