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By Kevin Zelnio, on  January 6th, 2012  Leave a comment  Deep Sea Music, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies  Dubstep, Great White, shark By para_sight, on November 17th, 2011 18 comments Biodiversity, Fish, New Research, Weird hawaii, shark, Shark Attack, swimming Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first. The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and co-authors in Pacific Science describes the first documented attack on a living human by a cookiecutter shark, Isistius sp., and it’s quite an eye-opener. Cookiecutters are relatively tiny sharks . . . → Read More: The real cookie monster
By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, Weird albino, cyclops shark, Gulf of Californa, Mexico, mutations, shark If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a surprising recent find by a Mexican fisherman of a very special little shark. Enrique Lucero León was fishing in the Gulf of California and caught himself a pregnant dusky shark. . . . → Read More: Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: By Kevin Zelnio, on September 28th, 2011 20 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Fish Advertising, PETA, shark, Shark Attack @SfriedScientist brought to my attention on twitter PETA’s new campaign, saying PETA is “now only concerned with the ethical treatment of *some* animals, vilifies sharks”. Indeed, their new campaign is wrong on so many levels. The ad in question is below: The backstory makes it incredibly insensitive and horrific as well, as Toni Whitt explains: A man . . . → Read More: PETA, Still Consistent in Being Idiots
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 26th, 2011 One comment Adaptations, Fish, Mating & Reproduction Sandtiger, shark, Sibling Rivalry Came across this in a youtube search for something unrelated (I swear distraction is built into the YT search algorithm), but it reminded me of a blog post from back in the day by one of favorite bloggers, Kelsey at From Mauka to Makai, who wrote more generally about sibling rivalry but illustrated this . . . → Read More: Shark Siblingicide
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 9th, 2011 4 comments Books/Media, Conservation & Environment, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate Finning, Gordon Ramsay, shark, shark finning Below is a highlights video of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s special Shark Bait in which he does his part to root out shark finning and trace it back to the fishermen who are tryign to make a living this way. You can watch the entire program at Thaicodfish’s Youtube channel, but this reel below really . . . → Read More: Shark Bait: Gordon Ramsay Helps Expose Shark Finning
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 1st, 2011 Leave a comment Fish, Megavertebrate shark, shark week, Tumblr, twitter Sunday night I wondered aloud on Twitter: “In 140 or less, why are you (or are you not) fascinated by #sharks? Use the hastags #sharkweek #DSN and I’ll compile a list!” My twitter buddy @jtotheizzoe posted the same on his excellent Tumblr site Its Ok To Be Smart. We both got some great responses at both places! So after . . . → Read More: Shark Week: What Is Your Fascination With Sharks?
By para_sight, on May 19th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Megavertebrate, Uncategorized manta, Metabolism, physiology, rays, shark, tuna Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so that we kids could investigate some reptilian thing warming itself on the black road surface; it was usually a fat shingleback or bombastic blue tongue, but sometimes a lovely red-bellied . . . → Read More: A bunch of hot heads
You are more likely to be killed by a cow than shark Between 2003 and 2008, 108 people died from cattle-induced injuries across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 27 times the whopping four people killed in shark attacks in the United States during the same time period, . . . → Read More: When Cows Attack
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