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Big, healthy great white shark washes up dead on Canada beach in latest of string of mystery strandings
Scientists have performed a necropsy on a great white shark that washed up in Nova Scotia — the fifth unexplained stranding of its kind in a year — but were unable to determine the cause of death.
Orcas attacked a great white shark to gorge on its liver in Australia, shredded carcass suggests
Orcas have been feasting on sharks' livers off the coast of South Africa for several years and could now be doing the same in Australia, the carcass of a great white suggests.
The strange story of sharks that lived in a golf course pond for 20 years — then vanished
In the 1990s, a group of juvenile bull sharks were left stranded in a golf course pond in Australia, where they thrived for decades. Now scientists are trying to understand why.
Scientists have figured out when the biggest bull sharks are most active — and it's not when official advice suggests
Researchers tracked more than 200 bull sharks off the coast of New South Wales to find out exactly when they were most active and posed the greatest risk to humans.
2 liver-eating orcas forced an entire population of great white sharks to flee their home waters
Researchers have discovered that hundreds of great white sharks that vanished from their home off the Western Cape of South Africa have moved east in order to survive — but this could spell trouble for both the sharks and the people living there.
Every year, dozens of female hammerhead sharks mysteriously convene in French Polynesia under the full moon
Every austral summer, Rangiroa and Tikehau atolls in French Polynesia host a mysterious assembly of female great hammerhead sharks — a critically endangered and typically solitary species.
Great white sharks: The world's largest predatory fish
Great white sharks are the largest predatory fish in the world, but scientists still have much to learn about these iconic predators.
2 male great white sharks have traveled thousands of miles together and no one knows why
Although usually solitary animals, two juvenile great whites, nicknamed Simon and Jekyll, have been tracked traveling more than 4,000 miles together along the U.S. east coast.
