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Extinct or Alive is an American wildlife documentary television programme produced for Animal Planet by Hot Snakes Media of New York City, the United States.It is hosted by wildlife biologist and television personality Forrest Galante, who travels to different locations around the globe to learn about possibly extinct animals and whether or not there is a chance that they may still be extant. [1]
Sharks could be facing extinction over the next couple of decades. Human interference is largely to blame for the species interference. Overfishing of sharks has increased as the global demand has ...
Sharkwater is a 2006 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Rob Stewart.Helping to protect sharks, changing government policy, and inspiring the creation of shark conservation groups, Sharkwater is considered one of conservation's success stories, resulting in shark finning being banned in over 90 countries. [1]
[10] [11] Sharks are often killed for shark fin soup, which some Asian countries regard as a status symbol. [12] Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water to die from suffocation or predators. [11] [13] Sharks are also killed for their flesh in Europe and elsewhere. [14]
But the U.S. still led the globe - again. See where the fatal attacks happened. ... 2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark bites around the world, ... The Bahamas have had 34 unprovoked ...
He travelled through fifteen countries for the next four years, studying and filming sharks, and going undercover to confront the shark fin industry. [2] Sharkwater went on to win more than 40 awards at top film festivals. [4] His follow-up film, 2012's Revolution, builds on Sharkwater, examining environmental collapse. In 2013, it was the ...
Since then, several other sharks have challenged the record. In 2021, Nandi tied the 15-foot record, then Zola, a female great white shark, set a new record with a 15-foot 6-inch breach. Watch the ...
It has been thought that megalodon became extinct around the end of the Pliocene, about 2.6 Mya; [21] [22] claims of Pleistocene megalodon teeth, younger than 2.6 million years old, are considered unreliable. [22] A 2019 assessment moves the extinction date back to earlier in the Pliocene, 3.6 Mya. [23]