Primary filming on Meg, a suspense-thriller movie featuring The Transporter actor, Jason Statham, facing off against a bloodthirsty megalodon shark at the bottom of the ocean, wrapped up in New Zealand last month. The big-budget blockbuster from Warner Brothers Films, which is being directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), is based on the 1997 novel of the […]
Captive shark in Australia gives virgin birth
A female zebra shark in a Townsville, Australia aquarium gave birth last year to a litter of three pups despite not having been exposed to a male of the species in over four years. Testing, revealed this week in the journal, Scientific Reports, show that the contain only the mother’s DNA and that the baby […]
Drone captures great white shark stalking kitesurfer
French travel blogger Isabelle Fabre knew she had a drone camera following her every move from above as she kitesurfed off the southern coast of Western Australia. What she didn’t know is that she also had a 12-foot great white shark doing the same thing from below the surface of the water. Fabre’s colleague, who was piloting […]
Thresher shark leaps into fisherman’s dinghy
Two south Australian fishermen got quite the scare when a nearly 10-foot thresher shark leaped into their boat while fishing less than a mile off shore of Port MacDonnell in Southern Australia. “The next thing all I could see over his left shoulder was this head, these two big black eyes and a mouth and the […]
Video: Hammerhead Shark vs. Bronze Whaler Shark
Footage posted by a sport fishing company in Exmouth, WA shows a large hammerhead shark chomping on a whaler shark. Source: www.perthnow.com.au
Air China bans shipping of shark fins
Air China became the country’s first major airliner to ban the shipping of shark fins as cargo on Friday, marking a major victory in conservation efforts in a region that has been identified as a major importer of the fins from around the world. It is estimated that China is a major consumer of the […]
Diver fends off aggressive bull shark on Great Barrier Reef
A Queensland spearfisherman was able to catch a harrowing encounter with an extremely aggressive bull shark on camera. Kerry Daniel was surfacing after a dive on the Great Barrier Reef last week when the approximately five foot bull shark charged directly at him. He was able to use his spear gun to fend off the […]
Florida Aquarium starved shark to death, according to complaint
A complaint filed with the 13th Judicial Circuit State Attorney and the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center alleged that an adult nurse shark that died at Tampa’s Florida Aquarium in November was due to human neglect. The complaint was brought forth by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Foundation on Thursday after a former biologist who worked for […]
Gutted bull sharks found in Titusville
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the dumping of three juvenile bull sharks that had been killed and gutted and left on a Titusville shoreline. The carcasses were found in Kennedy Point Park on Thursday. “I can’t believe they’d just gut it and throw their bodies away, make them go to waste,” […]
Rhode Island becomes latest to ban shark fins
Rhode Island became the 11th state in America to ban the ownership or sale of shark fins. The rule, which passed unanimously in both the state senate and house, went into effect on Jan. 1. The bill was sponsored by State Senator Susan Sosnowski and signed into law by Governor Gina Raimondo (D). Offenders could face fine of up […]
