For those of us shown Jaws at a too-young age, this is pretty much a worst case scenario: a thirteen foot, 1,600 pound Great White Shark washed up on a New England beach Saturday morning. Fishmerman Gary Severa discovered the wretched sea beast early Saturday on a beach near the Rhode Island – Massachusetts border.
You're gonna need a fresher pair of underwear after this one.
A shark sighting off the coast of Cape Cod closed the popular Nauset Beach in Orleans on Saturday, but swimmers were already allowed back in the water the following day.
Mars rover! Disease frog! Shark protection! Wheezing baby! Explaining nothingness! Fire turkey! Excess antimatter! Tricky evidence! And your holiday outer space weather report! It's your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—fishily!
Looking to re-ignite your childhood fear of sharks? Look no further! A tourist bodyboarding off a beach in western Australia was killed in a gruesome shark attack on Sunday, the first in the area in some two decades.
The most sought-after paparazzi shot in Southern California at the moment is not, in fact, one of Kim Kardashian getting into a public shouting match with her own ass (though such a photo would still command quite a price on the open market), but rather any visual evidence of the great white sharks spotted recently…
As the East Coast braces for Phase Two of God's Late-Summer Reckoning, the shores of Southern California remain sunny, warm, and tranquil. *Cue ominous tuba solo.*
Great white sharks are the largest, scariest predators in the sea. But they should stay in the sea. One shark didn't last week, and decided to see what it was like on a research boat.
Recently a diver took pictures of a blackspot tuskfish who was smacking a clam off a rock to get at the delicious food inside. As Science reports, the fish "was clearly quite skilled at its task" and "landing absolutely pinpoint blows."
Any fish with a healthy understanding of the food chain would choose to avoid a shark but to watch a group of fish act in unison is almost an art form.
2010 witnessed the highest number of shark attacks in a decade. Close down the beaches! Before you feed into the false panic, note there were only 79 shark attacks last year around the whole world, up from 63 in 2009.
Today is Bóndadagur, "Husband's Day," when Icelandic wives feed their husbands "dried fish, smoked lamb, putrefied shark and soured blood and liver pudding along with other soured meat products, including ram testicles" as a token of their love.
A German woman swimming in the ocean at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt was killed by (probably) an oceanic whitetip shark on Sunday. But it's just an isolated incident! If you don't count the three other attacks since Tuesday.
How do you fight off a shark attack? Pull its tail, apparently. That's what happened today in Australia when a dive instructor was bitten in the leg and butt and a swimmer yanked the shark's tail, which then fled.
[A model wears a creation of Mexican designer Gianfranco Reni at the Mercedes-Benz DFashion show in Mexico City. Technically, though, that's a shark jaw, right? So it's not really Reni's "creation," so much as... God's. Photo via AP.]
Yesterday a great white shark killed 19-year-old boogie-boarder Lucas Ransom in California after ripping his leg off at the pelvis. An expert said the shark probably thought Ransom was a sea lion, in a tragic case of "mistaken identity." [LAT]
In this clip from British TV series Walk on the Wild Side, a prairie dog thinks he spots his friend Alan, and a chorus of sharks sing the theme from Jaws. Priceless animal hilarity after the jump.
Chuck Patterson was surfing off the coast of San Clemente, California when he spotted two Great White Sharks following him. Naturally, Patterson decides to go after them and see what they're up to.
A shark was spotted at Rockaway Beach yesterday, and the Post really went for it: A "finned fiend" emerged at "Shark-away Beach" and "took a bite out of a beautiful morning" — the third sighting of "toothy terrors" this summer!
For more than 20 years, Shark Week has educated audiences by showing them how, with razor-sharp teeth and barrelfuls of dead seals, people can be enticed to watch the Discovery Channel.
