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Shark Fins Traced to Home Waters Using DNA -- A First
Animals  (tags: Shark, Home Water, DNA )

Nancy
- 6 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Many of the hammerhead sharks that are butchered to feed Asian demand for shark-fin soup start their lives in American waters, a new forensic study shows.
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Hammerhead Sharks Have "Human" Vision
Animals  (tags: Shark, T-shape, Hammerhead )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Hammerhead sharks' distinctive T-shaped heads give the predators human-like vision, according to a new study.
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Shark Fins Traced to Endangered Populations
Animals  (tags: Shark, DNA, Chinese delicacy )

Nancy
- 15 days ago - news.discovery.com
For the first time, DNA tools have successfully pinpointed the geographic origin of shark fins sold dried in markets to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy.
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Shark Jobs: Nature's Dirty Work
Animals  (tags: Shark, dirty Work, Ferries )

Nancy
- 23 days ago - livescience.com
They might all look like troublemakers, but most sharks have a grander purpose - or at least a useful one - beyond scaring surfers. Some eat gross things or serve as ferries to total suckers.
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Shark Bite Acts as Emergency Caesarean
Animals  (tags: news, Animal, Shark, Shark bite )

Katie
- 35 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A shark stunned aquarium visitors in New Zealand when it bit a female shark's stomach, causing four baby sharks to spill out of its womb.
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The Secret Lives and Loves of Great White Sharks
Animals  (tags: Animal, study, Shark, white sharks, lives )

Katie
- 41 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Great white sharks, much like humans, tend to stick to familiar turf, according to new research. Also like a lot of people, they like to hang out along the coastal waters of California.
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Shark Finning By Stealth - TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, crime, shark )

Maria
- 49 days ago - oceansentry.org
Way up north in the Gulf of Carpentaria, a major Australian fishery is currently targeting high numbers of sharks, mostly for their fins, to service the shameful international trade in shark fin. In spite of the national ban on shark finning, a loophole
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Dead Dolphin Found at Hollywood Beach Near Michigan Street -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Com
Animals  (tags: dolphin, alligator, death, discovery, shark, necropsy, biologist )

Raffi
- 89 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
A dead bottlenose dolphin that was bitten by a shark and a decomposed alligator possibly dumped in a canal were found on a mile-long stretch of Hollywood beach this morning. The dolphin was found about 6 a.m. by beach maintenance officials on the
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Spaniards Lobby Madrid on Shark Protection: Campaigners
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, shark, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 277 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Thousands of Spaniards have signed a petition demanding greater protection for sharks from overfishing, marine protection campaigners Oceana said Thursday. The document, signed by about 13,000 people, has been handed to Spain's marine
1 comment
Stone Eating Shark Dies at Anglesey Sea Zoo
Animals  (tags: Anglesey Sea Zoo, marine wildlife, shark, stone eating, death, endangered, extinction, protection, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 293 days ago - dailypost.co.uk
A SHARK died after eating stones in the bottom of her tank at Anglesey Sea Zoo. Staff at the attraction in Brynsiencyn called it a 'mystery'. They tested the other sharks using ultra sound equipment for research. Managing partner Frankie Hobro sa
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Luckiest Surfer Survives Shark Body-Slam
Animals  (tags: australia, marine wildlife, shark, bodyslam, endangered, extinction, protection, habitat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 294 days ago - news.com.au
GLEN Lockery reckons he must be one of the luckiest men alive after surviving a body-slam by a shark. The predator came at him from the deep before disappearing into murky post-flood surf at Shelly Beach near Port Macquarie at about 5pm last Wednesday.
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Turtle Awaits Prosthetic Limbs After Shark Attack
Animals  (tags: japan, marine wildlife, loggerhead turtle, shark, attack, artifical limb, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection )

Jacquelin
- 302 days ago - abc.net.au
A Japanese conservation group says it plans to fit prosthetic front limbs to a sea turtle injured in what marine scientists believe was a shark attack. "We need to pay special attention as the forelimbs will have to be strong enough to [allow her] to c
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Rare Whale Shark Photographed Off Gold Coast
Animals  (tags: australia, marine wildlife, shark, whale shark, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 330 days ago - goldcoast.com.au
A WHALE shark has been photographed off the Gold Coast _ the first time in 30 years one of the gentle giants has been seen in southeast Queensland waters. Local fishermen Mark Pease and James Bowden were about to head home when the 6m shark surfaced by
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VIDEO: Daredevil Surfer Hitches a Ride With a Great White Shark... a Fin-Tastic Fake or the Real Deal?
Animals  (tags: florida, marine wildlife, shark, surfer, hitching ride, fake or real )

Jacquelin
- 330 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
As stunts go, baiting a Great White Shark to take you for a ride by towing your surfboard is an adrenalin rush unlikely to be matched again. A video purporting to show just this has swept around the world via email in the last few days. But there's j
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N.Y. Man Attempts To Shoplift Pet Store Shark
Animals  (tags: new york, marine wildlife, shark, nurse shark, man, stolen from aquarium, endangered, extinction, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 334 days ago - cbs3.com
A New York man is accused of going fishing in a pet store aquarium where he caught a $350 shark and smuggled it out of the shop under his jacket. Police say the Freeport man released the contraband shark into his home aquarium, where they say he also k
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