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Megalodon and the Great White Sharks: Conclusion
This is the final post in the series… I had originally planned the first post in this series as a companion piece to the Cheetah post for the Friday Ark. One of the points I wanted to address was the...
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Octopus Killing a Shark
Martin Brazeau at The Lancelet has the video. Apparently, the octopus was moved into a shark tank and developed a regular habit of killing 3-4 foot sharks…
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14 Foot Long Hammerhead Shark Murdered
Long time readers of my blog know I have certain idiosyncratic quirks when it comes to sharks. However, this is just wrong! Apparently, some folks in Florida offed a 14 foot Hammerhead – which may a...
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New Species of Hammerhead Shark Discovered
According to BBC News and Science a new species of hammerhead shark has been discovered of the coast of South Carolina. The new species is related to the scalloped hammerhead pictured below. Dr Joe...
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Rare Frilled Shark Video
MSNBC has video of a female frilled shark. From MSNBC News: “We believe moving pictures of a live specimen are extremely rare,” said an official at the park. “They live between 600 and 1,000 meters...
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Reverse Evolution in Sticklebacks?
A number of people have emailed me a link to this story about “reverse evolution” in sticklebacks residing in Lake Washington. The basic story is that as Lake Washington was cleaned of its pollution...
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I Thought He Only Studied Lancelets!
That is the name of his blog anyway. Apparently, though, Martin also studies fossils. National Geographic has the story – and this is the clever part – apparently he didn’t even have to go out into the...
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Megalodon and The Great White Shark: Transitional Fossil Found
But, it doesn’t link Great Whites and Megalodon. Longtime readers may remember this three part series on the subject. An interesting new fossil has been discovered that sheds some more light on the...
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Shark Bites Whale
Phys.Org mentions an interesting article published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. The article concerns a fragment of a whale rib, dating to the Pliocene, that shows evidence of a...
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