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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.
She is one of the biggest great white sharks ever filmed and could be at least fifty years old. The vertical slashes on her left flank are either from fights with other sharks or mating scars.
The great white shark is more closely related to the mako sharks (Isurus spp.), with a common ancestor around 4 Mya. [26] [27] Proponents of the former model, wherein megalodon and the great white shark are more closely related, argue that the differences between their dentition are minute and obscure. [28]: 23–25
The boat soon resurfaced, but all that was ever found of Blaney was his hat. [9] Crew member of a pilot boat: c. 1840: Unconfirmed, presumed to be a Great white shark: Killed while treading water awaiting rescue after being accidentally thrown overboard in Charleston Harbor, Charleston County, South Carolina. Witnesses estimated the shark to be ...
Experts dissect a sixgill shark on a Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife lab table. They determined she likely made a meal of someone’s bait and was killed during the release process.
Scot is an impressive adult male shark that weighed 1,644 pounds when it was tagged by researchers Sept. 8, 2021, having been found it was swimming near Ironbound Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins. The great white shark is also known to prey upon a variety of other animals, including fish, other sharks, and seabirds. It has only one recorded natural predator, the orca.
It looks like this shark is straight out of the movie "Jaws." Marine biologist Hoyos Padilla recorded this incredible footage showing the biggest shark ever caught on camera, which is 20 feet long.