Man pulls aggressive 8-foot bull shark onto Indian Shores beach

  INDIAN SHORES —  A 21-year-old Pinellas County fisherman said he caught an 8-foot bull shark off Indian Shores beach on Monday and took a cell phone picture holding open its jaws as proof. “The mouth on that shark was pretty intimidating,” Jesse Wright said. “It had some pretty bad looking teeth.” Wright said he

805 pound mako shark caught on Panhandle beach

SANTA ROSA COUNTY — A Panhandle fisherman recently reeled in quite a catch: An 11-foot, 805-pound mako shark. But Joey Polk and the two cousins who helped him reel in the huge catch last week off a Gulf Coast beach would rather keep the feat

Western Australia Man bitten in reef shark incident

A man is being treated in hospital after being bitten by what is believed to be a reef shark. It is understood that the Perth man was spearfishing with a friend at South Passage just south of Coral Bay when he was bitten on the hand. The incident occurred about 2km offshore late this afternoon.

Shark bites tourist in Cocoa Beach

A shark bit a 42-year-old German tourist on the right foot this afternoon at Shepard Park in Cocoa Beach, said Jeff Scabarozi, Brevard County Ocean Rescue chief. The shark attack occurred about 3:45 p.m. Lifeguards saw the victim struggling in the water, then pulled him to shore. “He had some good puncture wounds and lacerations

SAS Peoples International Shark Attack File and the International Shark Attack File

SAS Peoples International Shark Attack File and the International Shark Attack File At our sister site http://sharkattackfile.info we added a new feature. We took all the incidents from 1997 to current and displayed them in an easy to understand yearly table. We also added the figures from the ISAF to the table. There are several different categories

USS Indianapolis hopefully the best shark movie ever…

International Shark Attack File

International Shark Attack File The International Shark Attack File is considered by many shark attack authorities as having the most complete listing of shark attacks worldwide. The International Shark Attack File is owned by the American Elsmobranch Society the world’s largest organization of shark scientists. It is housed, supported and promoted by some of the

Mako Shark attacks Seal off Portland, Australia

ANCIENT SHARK FOSSIL REVEALS NEW INSIGHTS INTO JAW EVOLUTION

Press Release American Museum of Natural History 16. April 2014 —————- Skull structures of 325-million-year-old shark fossil show that living sharks are evolutionarily advanced The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates—including humans—than do modern

A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches

Published online on 16. April 2014 A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches Alan Pradel, John G. Maisey, Paul Tafforeau, Royal H. Mapes, Jon Mallatt ABSTRACT: The evolution of serially arranged, jointed endoskeletal supports internal to the gills—the visceral branchial arches—represents one of the key events in early jawed vertebrate (gnathostome) history, because it provided

Catch Records of White Sharks in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

Published on 16. April 2014 The Last Frontier: Catch Records of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Northwest Pacific Ocean Heather M. Christiansen, Victor Lin, Sho Tanaka, Anatoly Velikanov, Henry F. Mollet, Sabine P. Wintner, Sonja V. Fordham, Aaron T. Fisk, Nigel E. Hussey ABSTRACT: White sharks are highly migratory apex predators, globally distributed in

Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks

Published on 15. April 2014 Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks Easton R White​, John D Nagy, Samuel H Gruber ABSTRACT: Long-lived marine megavertebrates (e.g. sharks, turtles, mammals, and seabirds) are inherently vulnerable to anthropogenic mortality. Although some mathematical models have been applied successfully to manage these animals, more detailed treatments are often needed

Shark : Reunion Island Crisis – Dateline – SBS One – 8/04/2014

A surfer from Orlando was bitten by a shark while in the ocean in New Smyrna Beach

Surfer bitten by shark in New Smyrna Beach A surfer from Orlando was bitten by a shark while in the ocean in New Smyrna Beach, a Beach Safety Ocean Rescue official said. The 25-year-old man was bitten near the jetty, a place popular for surfing and shark bites, just before 10 a.m., said Capt. Tammy

New Zealand Gamefish Tagging News – April 2014

Shark Recaptures in New Zealand’s Gamefish Tagging Program  – 2014 Overview : Since the 2013–14 season began on 1 July, 2013 there have been 26 tag recoveries advised. In the same period another 1400 tagged fish have been added to the database. The 26 recaptured fish comprised the following five shark specimens: – 3 mako