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Meals of the Mighty Mosasaur

Between 100 and 65 million years ago, at the time when dinosaurs reigned on land,...

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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...

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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

Where do sharks like to hangout? Turns out we largely don’t know. But Smithsonian...

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Backbone of Biodiversity at Risk

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) maintains the...

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Photo Sequence of Great White Shark Hunting

Great white sharks are athletic hunters, leaping completely out of the water as...

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The Goblin Shark

The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is one of the creepier fish out there! It...

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Blue-spotted Stingray

The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...

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The Thrashing Thresher Shark

A thresher shark’s long tail fin helps not only its swimming ability, but also...

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Great White Shark at Surface

Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are marvels of evolution, with...

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What is the Biggest Shark? A Chart Shows the Diversity of Shark Sizes

Sharks come in all sizes. The largest is the whale shark, which has been known to...

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Gaping Jaws of a Great White Shark

A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) emerges from the water's surface,...

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Breaching Sequence 7

Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab an...