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A great white shark that washed up on a beach in Australia appeared to be half-eaten. Scientists said the shark was likely attacked by an orca that just wanted to eat its liver. Advertisement A great white shark that appeared half-eaten when it washed up on an Australian beach had probably been attacked by a killer whale that just wanted its liver, wildlife scientists said. Portland Bait and Tackle in Victoria, Australia, posted photos of the white shark carcass to their Facebook page on Tuesday, calling it "equal parts cool and terrifying." The bait shop manager, Ben Johnstone, told Insider...

VIDEO AT LINK............. March 15 (UPI) -- A pair of Alabama fishing guides and their clients unexpectedly reeled in a great white shark in what is believed to be the first time a member of the species has been caught from a beach in the state. Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny, the Pensacola-based owners of fishing guide service Coastal World Wide, said they were on Orange Beach in the early morning hours of March 7 when something started to pull on one of their heavy-duty lines. The men said they initially thought they might have hooked a large tiger shark,...

Lead author Alison Towner inspects the carcass of a great white shark....Marine Dynamics/Dyer Island Conservation Trust/Hennie Otto =================================================== Frequent readers of CNET Science will remember Port and Starboard, the duo of killer whales from a story we published in June, which detailed research showing great white sharks were being hunted by the whales off the coast of South Africa. New aerial footage, released on Monday, shows one member of the murderous pair -- Starboard -- actually making a kill. The footage was released on YouTube as part of a new study, led by Alison Towner, published on Oct. 3 in...

Jaws may have terrified you at the cinema, but the iconic great white would have been dwarfed by Carcharocles megalodon, the largest shark in the history of the planet. The giant creatures lived between 23 million and 2.6 million years ago and scientists are divided over how and why the species perished. Now, details of fossils from the huge shark that lived alongside the dinosaurs have been studied for the first time in an attempt to solve this mystery.

About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of cosmic energy from that same shattering star explosion could have reached our planet and pummeled the atmosphere, touching off climate change and triggering mass extinctions of large ocean animals, including a shark species that was the size of a school bus. The effects of such a supernova—and possibly more than...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man is recovering after surviving an alligator attack over the weekend. Jeffrey Heim was diving in the Myakka River on Sunday looking for megalodon teeth when he was attacked from behind by an alligator. “I thought it was a boat it hit me so fast or it felt like it was so fast,” the 25-year-old said. He told our sister station WFLA he wasn’t in the water for very long when the attack happened. He thinks the alligator was about 9 feet long and possibly a female. It’s currently alligator mating season in Florida....

Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth, which can be more than 7 inches long. But these teeth, described by some scientists as the "ultimate cutting tools," took millions of years to evolve into their final, iconic form. Megalodon's earliest ancestor, Otodus obliquus, sported three-pronged teeth that could have acted like a fork for grasping and tearing fast-moving fishes. In later megatooth shark species, teeth flattened and developed serrated edges, transitioning to a knifelike shape for killing and eating fleshy animals like whales and dolphins.But the final tooth evolution in this lineage...

The shark scientists have a pretty good hunch Great white shark researchers are hoping to solve the most elusive piece of the Western North Atlantic white shark puzzle: when and where they mate. Shark scientists with OCEARCH have a pretty good hunch that the white shark mating site is off of the Carolinas, and they’re looking to confirm that in the coming month while researching there. From OCEARCH’s shark tracking data, it’s clear that the waters off the Southeast are a site for white sharks during the winter. The researchers have tracked both male and female mature sharks coming together...

A man on a boogie board was killed by a shark off the coast of central California on Friday. The attack happened around 10:40 a.m. at a Morro Bay beach known as “The Pit,” according to KSBY. The shark bite appeared to be from a Great white shark, first responders told the outlet. The victim had not been identified, and his age was unknown, the station said. Swimmers and surfers were banned from going into the water for the next 24 hours, according to the report. It appeared to be the first reported fatal shark attack of the year in...

Master Sergeant Leo P. Day, who had served 16 years in the U.S. Army and was then stationed at the Presidio, went out that evening after dinner. He stood on the cliff overlooking Baker Beach and surveyed the scene with his binoculars. To his right stood the Golden Gate Bridge and the majestic headlands of Marin. To his left, the posh neighborhood of Sea Cliff spread along the shore. It had been an unusually hot day for May in San Francisco, and now, not surprisingly, two teenagers were swimming in the blue ocean waters just off the beach that sits...

<p>John McLean has quite the shark tale to tell.</p><p>In an interview with News 6, the Pensacola charter fishing captain shared details about the moment he helped reel in an estimated 12 to 13-foot female great white shark to shore. McClean said his fishing story began six years ago when he moved to Florida from Minnesota to pursue professional hockey.</p>

Because of our menacing great white shark and the seal overpopulation dilemma, Cape Cod is in an ecological, public safety and economic crisis. The exploding seal population is a consequence of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, which allowed for the rapidly growing seal overpopulation. Seals attract great white sharks, which feed upon them and ferociously attack humans. We once had a thriving fishing industry, kept healthy in part by a bounty system of predator control. That ended in 1972 with the passage of the protection act, which not only lifted the bounties on fish-eating predators like seals, but placed...

Teeth marks from a great white shark are proof of a San Diego kayaker's narrow brush with danger off the coast of Catalina Island. The incident happened as Danny McDaniel and Jon Chambers were kayaking Saturday morning near Ship Rock, about two miles east of Catalina. The excursion was part of a scuba diving trip coordinated by Power Scuba from the island's Boy Scouts camp. "Felt push to the left, looked to right, giant great white shark a foot from my boot," said McDaniel. "His upper half of body was out of the water, his dorsal fin was out of...

Taking a dip in the ocean and coming face to face with a predator of the deep would be enough to scare anyone. Modern day great white sharks are intimidating creatures, but they wouldn’t have held a candle to the ancient super-sized beast known as megalodon. The long-extinct shark has been the subject of many research efforts in the past, with scientists attempting to determine when and where it lived, and perhaps even figure out why it’s no longer around. Now, new fossil evidence suggests that the colossal creature actually died off quite a bit earlier than was originally thought,...

Taking a dip in the ocean and coming face to face with a predator of the deep would be enough to scare anyone. Modern day great white sharks are intimidating creatures, but they wouldn’t have held a candle to the ancient super-sized beast known as megalodon. The long-extinct shark has been the subject of many research efforts in the past, with scientists attempting to determine when and where it lived, and perhaps even figure out why it’s no longer around. Now, new fossil evidence suggests that the colossal creature actually died off quite a bit earlier than was originally thought,...

A pair of divers have taken part in a daring photoshoot with the biggest great white shark on the planet after it was spotted swimming near Hawaii. The enormous predator known as 'Deep Blue', is believed to weigh around 2.5tons and measure up to 20 ft , was first seen by Mark Mohler and Kimberly Jeffries, who are both divers and photographers, on Sunday last week. And the pair soon leapt into the water to take a closer look at the creature as she fed on a dead sperm whale, around nine miles from the coast off the Hawaiian island...

“You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced via a loudspeaker. Stockbridge was in a helicopter, flying off the coast of Dana Point in Orange County, Calif., at about 2 p.m. local time on Wednesday. And, indeed, swimming in the Pacific Ocean below and clearly visible from the air, were several great white sharks. Their fins rose menacingly from the water as they glided back and forth.

"Shark proof" is maybe more "Shark resistant". "Don’t worry," they said "The cage is shark-proof" they said. I'm sure that's what the diver in this video was thinking when a great-white busted through the allegedly shark-proof cage. (Actually, I suspected there was a lot more we can't print on a family-friendly website going on in their mind). While this looks -and undoubtedly is- a terrifying experience, it's really not entirely the shark's fault. The shark couldn't see the diver -or the cage- while lunging at the shark bait, and sharks can't swim backwards, so after not moving forward, the shark's...

Grind TV reports about a rather scary confrontation between a Southern California shark tagger and a great white. Here’s Grind TV’s Pete Thomas with more: One of the great white sharks that attacked Keith Poe‘s fishing boat over a recent three-day period struck the 24-foot vessel with such force that Poe thought it had been struck by a sailboat. "Words cannot describe how loud the impact was around my head [while I was] inside the boat's v-berth," Poe stated Saturday in a Facebook description of his extraordinary encounter, while fishing near a dead whale off Los Angeles County. "The boat...

Captain Chard Starling has seen lots of things while on the water, but before the other day he’d only seen a great white shark once. Starling was excited to double that total over the weekend, calling it “incredible.” “Quite an eventful day. We caught more red snapper than we could count, had a Mola Mola follow right behind the engines for 10-15 minutes, and oh yeah, the great white deal. Incredible day,” he wrote on Facebook. “It stands true; you never know what you will see when you’re on the sea!”