Seventy-Foot Megalodon Shark No Longer Extinct
July 15, 2005, 10:46:07 AM
PHOENIX, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Carcharodon megalodon was the apex predator of all time. It was the most fearsome creature that ever lived -- a 70-foot, 60,000 pound prehistoric Great White shark. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart....
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Tagged whale sharks 'surprise' scientists
July 15, 2005, 10:43:53 AM
Sydney - Australian scientists tracking massive whale sharks said on Wednesday that they are demon swimmers just like other shark species....
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Gentle giants swimming into danger
July 15, 2005, 10:41:23 AM
Scientists monitoring the movement of whale sharks from Western Australia's Ningaloo reef, off the state's north-west, say the giant fish often swim into areas where they are in danger of being slaughtered for their fins.
Scientists from the CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began tagging six whale sharks in May and have been tracking their movements over the Internet....
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Anti-shark's fin activists set sights on hotel menus
July 15, 2005, 10:39:27 AM
By Caroline Li
Shark's fin soup will become extinct before the sharks that its consumption threatens - if environmentalists' dreams are realized....
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Support for shark breeding
July 15, 2005, 10:34:45 AM
By Helen Manusu
FISHERS and divers from the northern rivers of NSW have enthusiastically welcomed news of a captive breeding program for the endangered grey nurse shark, to supplement wild populations.
The Northern Rivers Fisheries Conference originally proposed the initiative in 2003 in a submission to the Threatened Species Unit, conference chairman Ken Thurlow told the Times....
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Florida Scientists Create Shark Repellent
July 15, 2005, 10:30:25 AM
In the wake of several shark attacks, Florida scientists think they have found a genuine shark repellent. The repellent is based on a shark's hatred or fear caused by the smell of a rotting shark carcass and could be available by next year, WESH 2 News reported....
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Second Shark Dies in Monterey Aquarium
March 10, 2005, 09:27:44 AM
BRIAN SKOLOFF
A great white shark that has been held in captivity in California far longer than any other member of its species has killed two smaller tankmates, heightening critics' calls for the animal's release.
One of the soupfin sharks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium died Feb. 23 after an attack by the great white. The second soupfin died Tuesday from injuries received in an attack a day earlier, said Randy Kochevar, a marine biologist at the aquarium.....
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Aquarium's great white bites other shark
March 10, 2005, 09:25:34 AM
MONTEREY, Calif. Officials at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are keeping a close eye on the aquarium's great white shark after it bit another shark -- the second biting incident in less than two weeks.....
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