WALL STREET JOURNAL - Torrential rains hammered Southern California, flooding freeways, triggering mudslides that engulfed hillside homes and forcing authorities to rescue people trapped in raging waters. The deluge battered communities from Santa Barbara to San Diego, with up to 11 inches of rain falling in some places since Sunday, shattering rainfall records across the...
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ABC NEWS - Researchers have discovered which dog breeds are more likely to get cancer, and the results disprove the notion that the largest dogs have a higher risk of the disease. It turns out that large -- but not the largest -- dog breeds generally have the highest cancer risk, according to the study...
USA TODAY - A wildlife filmmaker and a biology student believe they may have captured the first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark. Carlos Gauna, a wildlife filmmaker, and Phillip Sternes, a UC Riverside biology doctoral student, used a drone to film a 5-foot-long white shark swimming 1,300 feet off the coast of Carpinteria...
NEWSWEEK - For the first time, a live baby great white shark has been spotted in the wild. The shark was around 5 feet long already and pure white, unlike its grey-colored adult counterparts, leading scientists to believe it could be a baby great white, according to a new paper discussing the finding in the...
BBC - As far as experts are aware, the birth of a great white shark has never been witnessed, but Carlos Gauna may have captured the closest thing to that. Carlos has found fame on YouTube as TheMalibuArtist and has filmed incredible shots of sharks from above with his drone. "You're basically viewing the sharks...
THE DAILY MAIL - The first sighting of a newborn great white shark has been revealed in a new image that captured a five-foot-long, all-white predator swimming of the coast of California. The newborn great white shark was believed to be just hours old when scientists spotted it only 1,000 feet from the beach in...
THE WASHINGTON POST - A scientist and a wildlife filmmaker have captured what may be rare photos and video of a newborn great white shark, seen swimming just off the California coast near Santa Barbara. The footage, filmed by a drone last July, is stirring up excitement tinged with skepticism among experts who are eager...
CBS NEWS - Great white sharks are among the most notable of the ocean's apex predators, but a crucial part of their existence has never before been recorded, or even seen – until now. For the first time ever, an infant great white shark is believed to have been caught on camera, shortly after it...
POPULAR SCIENCE - A wildlife filmmaker and biology doctoral student have taken what could be the first picture of a newborn great white shark. The images and findings are described in a study published January 29 in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. On July 9, 2023, filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - For as much time and money as people have spent studying and filming great white sharks, no one has ever witnessed one being born. But new footage out of California might be the next best thing. On July 9, 2023, filmmaker Carlos Gauna and organismal biologist Phillip Sternes were following sharks with...
NPR / KCRW - The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a bigger version of today's great white shark, a depiction that has informed its appearance on...
POPULAR MECHANICS - We’re not quite sure if a new description of the extinct megalodon shark makes it more or less frightening. The fresh theory—described in a theory that was recently published in Palaeontologia Electronica—claims that the ancient creature was longer and slenderer than previously thought, with new estimates putting the size of the potentially...
ZME SCIENCE - The Megalodon, an ancient shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, has often been portrayed as a monstrous, oversized great white shark. This image, perpetuated by popular movies like “The Meg,” has been ingrained in the public consciousness. However, a new study is turning this perception on its head. Formally...
ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE - Maybe dark matter talks to itself, according to a new proposal, and that might just explain two cosmological mysteries at once. Dark matter is the name astronomers give to the mysterious substance that makes up the bulk of all matter in the universe. Upwards of 80 percent of the mass of a...
UNILAD - For those of you who aren't aware of the legend of the megalodon - no it's not some made-up word a group of lads came up with in one of their group chats - it's the name of the largest shark ever known. The shark - known as Megalodon or simply The Meg...
THE WASHINGTON POST - The extinct shark megalodon is often imagined as a beefy, supersize great white, with a gaping maw of pointy teeth capping off a powerful body that spanned 50 feet from nose to tail. Now, a team of more than two dozen scientists argues that the megalodon has been misunderstood, and may...
LIVE SCIENCE - Scientists say they have discovered a discrepancy in previous research and suggest megalodons may have been longer and more slender than previously believed — but not everyone is convinced. The team of 26 shark experts revealed their findings in a new study, published Jan. 21 in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. Instead, megalodon...
BBC SCIENCE FOCUS - A bold new study claims we’ve got the megalodon’s shape all wrong. According to the research, the monstrous prehistoric fish known as the megalodon (Otodus megalodon) may have been more of a long and slender shark than the chunky beast depicted by Hollywood. Nose to tail, the megalodon is generally thought...
CNN - Megalodons, the huge prehistoric sharks depicted in movies such as “The Meg,” had more slender bodies than was previously thought, according to a new study. Many mysteries remain about the biology of megalodons, but until now, great white sharks had been used to model their appearance. But new research from a team led...
INTERESTING ENGINEERING - In a stunning revelation challenging a previously held popular notion, researchers have revealed that the Megalodon, formally known as Otodus megalodon, was in fact, a more slender creature than imagined. However, the study, led by Kenshu Shimada, a paleobiology professor at DePaul University, challenges this long-standing notion by presenting evidence that Megalodon's...