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Tech NewsSploidGreat White Shark Breaks Into Diver’s Shark Cage, Terror Ensues
Harrowing new video shows a large great white shark lunging for a chunk of tuna—and then wriggling its way inside a shark-proof cage with a diver inside. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the video is as horrifying as it sounds. The incident happened near Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Mexico. Shark watchers … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidScare Everyone Shitless With This Animatronic Shark Costume
As Alfred pointed out in The Dark Knight, some men just like to watch the world burn. To them, a day at the beach spent lounging in the sun isn’t particularly enjoyable. But a day at the beach spent terrorizing swimmers with this amazing animatronic shark suit? Now that’s an afternoon well spent. This incredible … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Big Ass Shark Jumps Too Damn Much
Chill out, man. It was cute the first time you jumped out of nowhere. And maybe still sort of amusing the second time you missile’d yourself out of the water. But when the shark comes breaching once again? Dude. And when it gets a little bit too close where you can feel its splash? And … Continued
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Tech NewsA 400 Year-Old Shark May Hold the Cure to Aging
If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan, you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s happening with the Greenland shark. According to a new scientific paper, this mysterious deep-sea dweller can live up to 400 years, making it the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. Let that number sink in for a minute. Four … Continued
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Tech NewsGreat White Sharks Are Returning to the Northeast
On August 3rd, researchers discovered a dead mink whale floating belly up off the coast of Cape Cod. The next day, the same carcass was spotted again; ravaged almost beyond recognition. Its tongue, internal organs, and most of its skeletal muscles had been ripped off, leaving “little more than the spinal column and skull.” According … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhat Kind of Scary Creatures Are Hiding Deep in the Ocean?
The deep sea is home to creatures that are sort of normal but then have some sick twist that make them monstrous and so creepy you want to peel your skin off. A squid can’t be just a squid, it has to be a giant squid the size of a school bus. A shark can’t … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDang, Look at This Huge Whale Shark
To be fair, whale sharks don’t come in any size other than “huge.” That’s kind of their thing, being that they’re the largest fish species on Earth. How huge are they? How does approximately 40-feet long and 45,000 pounds strike you? Lucky for shark biologist Ocean Ramsay who’s swimming alongside this one, whale sharks are … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Is What a Sonogram of a Pregnant Shark Looks Like
You’re looking at the first-ever sonogram of a pregnant tiger shark. The baby sharks inside the mother shark’s belly have been highlighted in the footage below so you can see them more easily. But even without the added outline and color, you can very clearly see the sharks’ heads and their very frightening rows of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Is Too Many Sharks
Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets of Shark Island is a wonderful documentary about the ecosystem in the waters around the Revillagigedo Islands, a group of four volcanic islands 240 miles off of Mexico. Because it’s “the only natural juncture for miles” in the Pacific Ocean, there’s a lot going on around there. Most scarily, a shit ton … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDrone Catches Incredible 70-Shark Feeding Frenzy
This footage, captured above the appropriately named Shark Bay in Western Australia, shows what happens when 70 sharks come across a whale. It involves rather a lot of blood. The once-clear waters of the bay fill with plumes of blood as the tiger sharks chow down without mercy on the humpback whale. I can’t work … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Drone Footage Shows a Pod of Dolphins Hunting a Shark
Whoa. This aerial view, courtesy of a drone, captures something not often seen: a pod of false killer whales (which are a species of dolphins, of course) chasing and hunting down a shark in the waters near Sydney, Australia. You can see the gang of false killer whales basically acting like a pack of wolves … Continued
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io9Movies
Jason Statham Versus a Giant Shark Sounds Like a Goddamn Great Time at the Movies
Forget that movie where Blake Lively hides from a shark on a rock. Give us, instead, Jason Fuckin’ Statham going up against a bloodthirsty, 60-foot-long Megalodon that’s somehow been chilling in the Mariana Trench for millions and millions of years. We’re gonna need a bigger boat… full of popcorn. Meg, based on Steve Alten’s 1997 … Continued
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io9A Great White Shark Menaces a Terrified Blake Lively in The Shallows Trailer
Summer is coming, which means one thing: it’s almost shark-movie season! In The Shallows, a great white that has no business being so close to shore menaces an extremely unlucky surfer (Blake Lively) who’s been stranded on a rock tantalizingly close to the (deserted) beach. Here’s the official synopsis from Sony: In the taut thriller … Continued
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Tech News
Australian Lifeguards Are Getting a $200,000 Drone to Spot Sharks
Drones are slowly but surely becoming part of the equation for emergency services for jobs like search-and-rescue or avalanche prevention. Australia’s taking things a step further, thanks to the introduction of a long-range helicopter drone to help with a very Australian problem. Little Ripper is a modified version of a military drone, and has the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidBig Shark Eats Little Shark in Aquarium
It doesn’t get any badder than the savagery that is a big sand tiger shark eating a little banded hound shark even though they’re both being properly fed because they were both inside an aquarium in South Korea. There’s food and yet, cannibalism. Reuters says: The aquarium said the tail is expected to stay in … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Shark Shepherdess Looks Like She Stepped Out of an Underwater Fairy Tale
A lovely shepherdess in a flowing white dress tends to her flock in these gorgeous photographs reminiscent of a fairy tale. The twist: the shepherdess is underwater, and her charges are white-tipped reef sharks. The image is part of the latest series from conservation photographer Benjamin Wong, a.k.a. Von Wong, who has a bit of … Continued
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Tech News
Researchers Want To ‘Build’ Their Own 3D Shark with Beastcam
The giant blue crab that is swooping down on that gecko is known to the people of the University of Massachusetts as Beastcam. It can scan a car in 45 seconds flat. Hopefully it can scan a live shark in less. The first step to creating Beastcam was an abject failure. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, … Continued
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ScienceBiology
Scientists Officially Pronounce the “Ninja Lanternshark” a New Species
It’s scientific name is Etmopterus benchleyi, but when a shark is all-black, lurks in the depths of the ocean, and has the ability to glow, why limit yourself to the official nomenclature? Researchers have nicknamed this bad boy the “ninja lanternshark.” These sharks were hauled up from the deep all the way back in 2010, … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch A Great White Shark Jump A Seal In San Francisco
This happened just off the dock for the Alcatraz Island ferry in downtown San Francisco. Waters surrounding the city are some of the most great white infested in the world. And below is another video of the aftermath, possibly containing the greatest narration ever delivered by a child, “This is the best thing I’ve ever … Continued
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ScienceBiologySharks Can Sense Electricity, and That Might Save Them from Extinction
Anyone who has ever gone fishing knows that you don’t always catch what you’re trying to catch. In industrial fishing, that problem is called “bycatch,” and it can have grave consequences. It’s hard not to catch other animals swimming near the target species. Large commercial vessels fish for tuna and swordfish with miles-long lines containing … Continued
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