great white shark
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Orcas Don’t Need Buddies to Kill and Eat Great White Sharks
Researchers studying orcas off the coast of South Africa recently observed one of the whales consuming a great white shark alone, in just two minutes. Since 2017, two orcas in particular have been wreaking havoc on the great whites off South Africa’s Mossel Bay. Dubbed Port and Starboard (cute!), the apex predators have developed a…
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A Wounded Shark Regenerated Its Torn-Up Dorsal Fin, Photos Show
A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s recovery is published in the Journal of Marine Sciences. Silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) are commonly found off the coasts of all continents…
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Two Orcas Near South Africa Are at War With Great White Sharks
Two orcas named Port and Starboard seem to have developed a taste for great white sharks. Since 2017, eight great white sharks have washed ashore in South Africa, with signs of having been attacked by orcas. Seven of the sharks — typically apex predators — were missing their livers, and some didn’t have their hearts…
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Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent
If you visited the Ocearch marine animal tracker in the last week, your eyes might have been drawn to the eastern seaboard of North America, where a bombardment of blue dots made it look like the coastline was being assaulted by white sharks.