Sharks

Intense Video About the Mystery of What Ate This Great White Shark

A group of marine biologists off the coast of Australia tagged a healthy great white shark. Then, a few months later, the tag washed ashore. When researchers analyzed data from the tag, they were confronted with a mystery that was deeply weird, and slightly terrifying. In this video, we learn what the researchers found on…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 6

Sharknado 2 Teaser Is Even More Ridiculous Than The Original

We didn’t think it was possible, but Sharknado 2 has really raised the whole “sharks in tornados” aspect for the follow-up movie. This teaser trailer for the sequel really sets the bar high when it comes to hitting people with sharks falling out of the sky. Also, Sharknado is now doing good in the world…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jun 5

This shark likes to be pet like a dog

Meet man’s best friend of the ocean, the shark. Wait, what? It sure seems like that in this video. Watch as this adorable (?) Caribbean reef shark waddles its way over to the scuba diver as if it’s asking her to pet it. And when she’s done petting, the shark wants more! Of course, the…

Sploid Casey Chan May 29

And Now, David Attenborugh Astride a Hungry, Hurdling, Bipedal Shark

“You name it. I’ll paint it. On Paint.” That’s the motto of MS Paint artist Jim, founder of Jim’ll Paint It. Recently, someone asked Jim to paint “a picture of David Attenborough sitting proudly atop a great white shark which has somehow evolved legs and is winning the men’s 400 metre hurdles having eaten the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 24

This Is the Closest We’ve Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

Shark skin is famously sleek and dragless, the envy of swimsuit designers. Perhaps less famous is what shark skin’s oddly rough surface looks like up close: an eerie matrix of microscopic tooth-like scales. Now, scientists are 3D printing artificial shark skin in hopes of unlocking its swimming secrets. The 3D-printed shark skin above is the…

Physics & Chemistry Sarah Zhang May 21

Scientists Finally Understand Shark Skin, Thanks to 3D Printers

If you described a shark as a toothy torpedo covered in sandpaper, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. It’s that rough sandpapery skin that gives sharks their highly efficient swimming abilities, and scientists finally understand why. A shark’s skin is covered in millions of microscopic denticles, rigid tooth-like scales that jut out from…

Biology Jason G. Goldman May 15

What Would Happen If You Turned Megalodon into Shark Fin Soup?

A group of marine biologists watched the new Syfy movie Mega-Shark vs. Mecha-Shark, which made them wonder what would happen if megalodon actually were alive today. Likely, it would be hunted to near-extinction for its fins — which would, they estimated, make 70,456 bowls of shark fin soup. They reached this estimate by looking at…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 28

How Much Soup Could You (Hypothetically) Make From A Megalodon?

Shark fin soup is a traditional Chinese dish made from the cartilage found inside the fins of sharks. The growing demand for shark fins is one of the main drivers of the global decline in shark populations. One blogger wondered how much soup you can make from the fin of a single megalodon, so he…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 28

Diving in Shark-Infested Waters — for Science!

Sharks are rapidly dying out, and scientists desperately need more data to estimate the extinction risks for these threatened species. Now, marine researchers in Australia say that dive guides and amateurs can help fill some significant gaps in their knowledge. All the researchers really need are people who can count the sharks that they see.…

io9 Mark Strauss Apr 28

The New England Aquarium Has Some Great Advertising

Over on its website, the New England Aquarium has archived all of its ad campaigns from the past six years. And some of them are truly great. Among the standouts are the 80 Penguins posters and the “See Turtles” campaign. But for my money, last year’s “Let your imagination run wild” series is perfect. Mixing…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Apr 20

The U.S. throws 2 billions pounds of fish back in the ocean a year

American fisheries are throwing about 2 billion pounds of fish back in the ocean a year — and a lot of it is edible (even delicious) fish that is already dead or dying, or marine life not intended to be caught for food, including sharks, seals and dolphins. The report comes from Oceana, who used…

io9 Ria Misra Mar 21

What happens when you throw four sharks into a giant school of fish

Four blacktip reef sharks swim amongst a school of bait fish off the coast of Argentina. The fish, naturally, do not seem happy to see said sharks. That is most certainly because the sharks are hungry, and they are the buffet. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Adam Clark Estes Mar 19

Watch a scuba diver instantly put a shark to sleep with this neat trick

You should probably never try this when you go scuba diving but watch this scuba diver turned shark whisperer instantly immobilize a shark and put it to sleep with a touch of the nose. The diver uses a technique called tonic immobility, he basically holds the sweet spot on the shark’s nose to put it…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 17

Bourbon Tags Along with Shark Researchers for Faster Aging

Meet Lydia, the shark who crossed the mid-Atlantic ridge, sketched a self-portrait with her tracking data, and helped age bourbon into a smooth temptation for on-board researchers. Lydia is a 14-foot (4.4-meter) great white shark who was caught and tagged off the coast of Florida in March 2013. The transponder Ocearch placed on Lydia broadcasts…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Mar 13

Video of hundreds of sharks swarming a diver is surprisingly sweet

Hundreds of hammerhead sharks unexpectedly swarming a diver sounds like the beginning of a pretty alarming tale. Instead, this video of the encounter is really pretty sweet. A diver from nature documentary company Earth Touch was shooting some undersea footage when he was spotted by three hammerhead sharks, which were quickly joined by about 100…

io9 Ria Misra Mar 4

Watch a great white shark fly into the air to kill a seal

Don’t worry, the seal was just a decoy. But the breaching great white shark attack was real. The Great White comes at the seal at such a high speed (up to 25mph) that it launches itself and the seal decoy it caught out of the ocean and into the air. It’s beautifully fierce, isn’t it?…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 26

Australian Sharks Will Now Be Tweeting Their Locations

There’s a great, bloody shark war going on in Western Australia right now. After six deaths in two years—making Western Australia the deadliest place on earth for shark attacks—the state has ratcheted up its side of the war by deciding to kill sharks. Lots of ’em. Any shark within one kilometer of the beach will…

Biology Sarah Zhang Dec 28

New research: Great white sharks are surprisingly similar to humans

A new genetic study on great white shark’s hearts has found that these animals are strikingly similar to humans. More than zebrafish, in fact, which is now widely used to “study cancers, neurological diseases and blood disorders” because of their similitude to humans. Cornell University’s professor Michael Stanhope—the lead author of the paper published in…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 16

Sharkukkah: Eight Nights of Terror!

Just when you thought it was safe to celebrate the holidays, something rises from deep out of the comments section, something cold, something predatory, something strangely festive. That’s right, people, best catch it now, because Sharkmas comes but once a year. Today, we surveyed the upcoming television scene for the week and, with one voice,…

io9 Ria Misra Nov 25

Comment of the Day: Hybrid Mutant Shark Edition

In today’s comments, we envied the polite small-talk abilities of the marmoset, looked up at the heavens with a mixture of awe and suspicion, and learned one more reason to fear the deep: hybrid sharks. In response to this post, exposing a potential yeti as just a pretender to the throne ancient polar-brown bear hybrid,…

io9 Ria Misra Oct 17

Intense Video About the Mystery of What Ate This Great White Shark

Sharknado 2 Teaser Is Even More Ridiculous Than The Original

This shark likes to be pet like a dog

And Now, David Attenborugh Astride a Hungry, Hurdling, Bipedal Shark

This Is the Closest We’ve Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

Scientists Finally Understand Shark Skin, Thanks to 3D Printers

What Would Happen If You Turned Megalodon into Shark Fin Soup?

How Much Soup Could You (Hypothetically) Make From A Megalodon?

Diving in Shark-Infested Waters — for Science!

The New England Aquarium Has Some Great Advertising

The U.S. throws 2 billions pounds of fish back in the ocean a year

What happens when you throw four sharks into a giant school of fish

Watch a scuba diver instantly put a shark to sleep with this neat trick

Bourbon Tags Along with Shark Researchers for Faster Aging

Video of hundreds of sharks swarming a diver is surprisingly sweet

Watch a great white shark fly into the air to kill a seal

Australian Sharks Will Now Be Tweeting Their Locations

New research: Great white sharks are surprisingly similar to humans

Sharkukkah: Eight Nights of Terror!

Comment of the Day: Hybrid Mutant Shark Edition

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