Posts Tagged ‘Sharks’
The Arcade Flyer Archive collects business-to-business ads that went out to arcade operators in the before-time [via Buzzbloq, which picks out a few faves]
These vintage arcade ads provide a nostalgic and humorous glimpse into past game marketi... ...
A 13-year-old girl was bitten multiples time in a shark attack on a Florida beach last week. She survived by punching the fish in the face–just as naturalists recommend–deterring it from finishing its meal.
Ella Reed, speaking to ABC Lo... ...
A teen flying his drone on a New South Wales beach noticed what is believed to be a great white shark swimming around unwitting waders. As Sea Life Sydney Aquarium shark expert Rob Townsend points out in the news report above, one of the most interesting things about the footage is that the shark appears ...
Some species of sharks have evolved to literally walk along the ocean floor (no, not on land) using their fins as feet. New research Conservation International’s Mark Erdmann and colleagues determined that walking sharks only evolved their unique capability 9 million years ago, "making them the 'youngest' sharks on our planet." Of course, a ...
On Saturday, Danny McDaniel was kayaking near Santa Catalina island off the southern California coast when he felt something big strike the side of his boat. It was a great white shark that Ben Frable, Marine Vertebrates Collection Manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography later estimated to be 17-20 feet long. How did they ...
Jeff Crilly and his friends were participating in a mako shark fishing tournament off the Jersey Coast when a different kind of shark came by for a snack of chum. Yes, they're gonna need a bigger boat. John Chisholm, a shark expert at the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife, estimates the 16- to ...
Yesterday, a guest on the 28th floor at the Tidewater Resort on Panama City Beach caught this video of a big shark circling a lone woman who had no idea the animal was nearby. Eventually people on the beach noticed the shark and yelled to the woman to return to shore. I don't know what ...
An astonishing school of hammerhead sharks surprises divers at Darwin's Arch in the Galápagos Islands in this majestic video from the BBC's Mission Galápagos series. In an article at a href="https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/liz-bonnin-amazing-wildlife-experiences/"Wanderlust, the Mission Galápagos series host, animal biologist and presenter Liz Bonnin, lists this adventure as one of her "most amazing wildlife experiences":
The hammerheads ...
Having a rough day? Relax! These adorable sharks are on the other side of the glass.
Watch them float around being shark-y, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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TIL: Sharks are attracted to the sound of death metal. Apparently, the "dense tones" of it mimics the "low frequencies of struggling fish." (****.)
In 2015, a Discovery Channel crew -- hoping to attract a large great white named "Joan of Shark" -- dropped a speaker underwater and played some.
Independent:
Desperate to feature the 16-foot, ...