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Dear Sharks, Steven Spielberg Is Sorry About What ‘Jaws’ Did to You     – CNET

Dear Sharks, Steven Spielberg Is Sorry About What ‘Jaws’ Did to...

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Sharks, Steven Spielberg is sorry. The director of the 1975 summer blockbuster movie Jaws said he feels responsible for the deadly impact the film may have had on shark populations.Spielberg, who was just 27 when he made Jaws, said he fears "sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen…
Megalodon and other extinct giant sharks started life in nurseries

Megalodon and other extinct giant sharks started life in nurseries

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Enlarge / A great white shark.wildestanimal / Getty Images Gigantic extinct sharks have something to tell us from millions of years ago, and paleontologists are only just beginning to unravel that message. In a series of firsts, paleontologists have identified a growing number of paleo-nurseries, ancient sanctuaries where young sharks may have been born and…
Megalodon, other extinct giant sharks, started life in nurseries

Megalodon, other extinct giant sharks, started life in nurseries

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Enlarge / A great white shark.wildestanimal / Getty Images Gigantic extinct sharks have something to tell us from millions of years ago, and paleontologists are only just beginning to unravel that message. In a series of firsts, paleontologists have identified a growing number of paleo-nurseries, ancient sanctuaries where young sharks may have been born and…
Can You Fight a Shark and Win?

Can You Fight a Shark and Win?

Photo: Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)If the film Jaws is any indication, the best way to fight a shark is to shove a pressurized scuba tank in its mouth, climb into your ship’s crow’s nest, and shoot the tank from a distance, making the shark explode into a million pieces. If you’re like me and don’t swim…
Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds

Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds

Enlarge / A CT scan image of the spiral intestine of a Pacific spiny dogfish shark (Squalus suckleyi). The beginning of the intestine is on the left, and the end is on the right.Samantha Leigh/California State University, Dominguez Hills In 1920, Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla designed and patented what he called a "valvular conduit": a…
Great white sharks’ stomach contents reveal surprising meal choices

Great white sharks’ stomach contents reveal surprising meal choices

University of Sydney doctoral student Richard Grainger catalogs the contents of a white shark's stomach. University of Sydney You can turn off the Jaws theme music now. Scientists combed through the stomach contents of 40 juvenile white sharks from off the coast of Australia and discovered their diets involve a lot more seabed-level meals than…
Can Sharks Use Magnetic Field Polarity To Orient In Space And Solve A Maze? Seems One Of Their Relatives Can!

Can Sharks Use Magnetic Field Polarity To Orient In Space And...

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Chances are if you’re an animal, you need orientation in some way to navigate. It’s an integral part, actually, many using environmental cues like landmarks, sounds, odors, the position of the sun, or the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field as point of references to maintain the correct orientation to get where they are going. The Earth's…
These sharks can walk, and they’re adorable

These sharks can walk, and they’re adorable

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Hemiscyllium michaeli, the leopard epaulette shark, is a species of bamboo shark in the genus Hemiscyllium. It is a tropical shark known from the shallow ocean in the Milne Bay region of eastern Papua New Guinea. Conservation International photo by Mark V Erdmann The idea of a walking shark might sound like an apocalyptic Sharknado…
Forget sharks with lasers on their heads. This AI can read around corners

Forget sharks with lasers on their heads. This AI can read...

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Researchers used deep learning to create a new laser-based system that enables imaging around corners in real time. Felix Heide/Princeton University Hiding behind a wall might not be practical for much longer thanks to new technology that uses artificial intelligence to see and even read around corners.A team of researchers from Princeton, Stanford, Rice and…
Acidifying oceans could eat away at sharks’ skin and teeth

Acidifying oceans could eat away at sharks’ skin and teeth

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Hopefully the moonshark (and its ocean-ly ilk) can be saved from this pollution scourge. For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could take down whales. Their ancestral line…

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