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The Week in Sharks: Happy Birthday Jaws; Please Don’t Eat the Clown He Costs 13 Bucks an Hour

Aging Sharks Hey, Thursday was Jaws‘s 35th birthday, according to some arbitrary standard—though technically speaking, it was Jaws (nee Bruce)’s 35th deathday; if the shark were really born today, it’d be at least 50 (35 years since the [spoiler alert, but whatever—you think maybe the shark lived happily ever after at the end? No! Died. [...]

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The Week in Sharks: And On the Seventh Day, Sharks Ate People, and It Was Good

Monday, Tuesday? Happy days. Thursday, Friday? Happy days. Saturday, Sunday? You’re missing a leg (but otherwise happy days). More shark attacks occur on Sunday than any other day, according to a case study by the University of Florida based on 231 shark attack reports from Volusia County, Florida. Volusia County has been dubbed the “Shark [...]

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The Week in Sharks: I Like Big Caudal Fins and I Cannot Lie

It’s a reasonable bet that at some point, in some language, on any given day, someone utters something along the lines of “that’s a big-ass shark.” Only in the case of the threshers—a common genus found in temperate waters across the globe—this is a perfectly accurate observation; the upper caudal (tail, to the restless masses) [...]

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