Eugenie Clark, Scholar of the Life Aquatic, Dies at 92
Eugenie Clark, whose childhood rapture with fish in a New York City aquarium led to a life of scholarly adventure in the littorals and depths of the Seven Seas and…
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Australia Sees 2 Shark Attacks In 2 Days, But One Researcher Is Urging People Not To Freak Out
Australia has seen two shark attacks in as many days, but at least one expert is saying the incidents don’t warrant panic. Tadashi Nakahara, a 41-year-old Japanese man, died Monday…
Extreme Dog Grooming: Creative or Cruel?
One woman carefully snips Cleopatra’s crown into her poodle’s thick, black coat. Another carves zebras and elephants into a white poodle’s fur to create a Madagascan landscape. Popeye and Bluto…
Scary-Looking Goblin Shark Caught Off Australian Coast
Fishermen trawling off the coast of North South Wales in Australia last week found a big surprise in their fishing nets: the body of a rare sea creature that’s been…
Left shark is an artiste!
But neither the general public nor the media seem to appreciate just how much work goes into an interpretive, character-based dance such as the one Left Shark performed last night,…
Meet One Of Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Halftime Sharks
Katy Perry blew everyone’s minds on Sunday night during the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. There was a giant robotic jungle cat, dancing chess pieces, Missy Elliott, Lenny Kravitz and…
‘Shark Week’ becomes ‘Summer of the Shark’
(The young Lesniak actually helped to get a law passed last year that banned the possession and sale of shark fins in Massachusetts.) – Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data…
Something out of ‘Alien’: Rare frilled shark caught off Australian coast
With a mouth packed full of needle-like teeth and a body like an eel, the six-foot long frilled shark is sometimes described as a fish “fossil” that dates back 80…
Super-Rare ‘Living Fossil’ Shark Caught Off Australian Coast
Fishermen in Australia were stunned last month when they hauled up a shark so strange-looking that it’s been called a “living fossil”–300 teeth and all (scroll down for photos). The…