sharks

A diver who is best friends with a huge 15ft tiger shark that could attack at any moment says she is really just a big softie. Jim Abernethy, from Palm Beach Florida, has spent most of his life swimming with the top ten most dangerous shark species and says he’s never encountered an aggressive...

Two orcas renowned for terrorizing great white sharks were again seen hunting off the coast of South Africa. The killer whales, which are dubbed Port and Starboard, are known to kill great whites and rip out their livers. Last month, marine scientists witnessed the deadly duo killing a record 17...

Godzilla? 9-foot great white shark EATEN by huge mystery sea monster, say scientists Jun 07, 2014 14:56 By Mikey Smith A nine-foot-long great white shark was eaten by a huge mystery sea monster, according to scientists in Australia. As the saying goes, there's always a bigger fish -...

Up until this video was shot, Florida diver Dave Marcel had an interesting habit when he encountered sharks. According to Animal Planet, he enjoyed flipping them over, then kissing and rubbing their stomachs. But when he decided to get a little friendlier and kiss a nurse shark on the lips, his...

A real giant shark... fossil.

A former housemate told me a couple of years ago he had seen footage on an American documentary (he believed it was by National Geographic) of a deep diving sub filming an enormous shark at a great depth. He remembered it as being around 50 ft long and of an unknown species, he seemed to recall...

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Sub-tropical paradise in London The East End of London used to be a sub-tropical paradise with swaying palm trees, shallow warm waters and exotic marine species. This is the conclusion drawn by Jackie Skipper, palaeontologist at the UK's Natural History Museum, from fossils uncovered by...

I'm sure that I can't be the only one to have heard the story that sharks cannot catch cancer. Versions of the story have it that scientists have attempted to start cancers in sharks, but that bizarrely the cancer just withers away. Today in the Observer, a medical article (discussing the...