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| 'Good role models—for sharks.' U.K.-based marine biologist praises the Blue Shark. (Page 1/1) |
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rinselberg
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MAR 20, 02:01 AM
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| quote | | Despite this incident[,] they [blue sharks] are really good role models for challenging the stereotypes that sharks have endured for decades. |
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Yeah, that's kind of what I've been thinking. It's almost a no-brainer.
"Safe to swim in sea, says expert after suspected shark attack"
BBC News; August 3, 2022.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk...nd-cornwall-62404667
After a snorkel diver was injured, but not very seriously, by what was thought to be a blue shark (Prionace glauca), offshore along the United Kingdom's Cornwall coast.
The marine biologist who describes the blue shark as a "role model" (at least in U.K. waters) could be said to be something of a "specimen" herself:
To wit[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-20-2023).]
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maryjane
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MAR 20, 07:43 AM
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The problem with all that is that the dead (and eaten) tell no tales... [This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 03-20-2023).]
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rinselberg
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MAR 21, 05:40 PM
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"BRING ME THE HEAD OF Odontaspis ferox"
"U.K. scientists plead for return of rare shark’s head, promise ‘no judging’ ..."
| quote | Scientists in Britain are searching for a rather unusual missing object: a rare shark’s head, chopped off and taken away after the fish washed up on a beach.
Conservationists and experts are so desperate to find the head that they’ve even promised whoever took it there’d be no judgment and that they could have it back after scientists finish examining it.
That’s because the shark has been identified as a smalltooth sand tiger shark. Not only is it a rare species, but conservationists say it is seldom seen so far north in the northeastern Atlantic, making its discovery in Hampshire, southern England, one that can provide valuable information about the species. . . . |
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That, my friends—a literary affectation, if not a literal truth—is only the beginning of a considerably longer news report.
Victoria Bisset for the Washington Post; March 21, 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost....shark-head-dan-snow/
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williegoat
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MAR 21, 05:59 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
"BRING ME THE HEAD OF Odontaspis ferox"
"U.K. scientists plead for return of rare shark’s head, promise ‘no judging’ ..."
That, my friends—a literary affectation, if not a literal truth—is only the beginning of a considerably longer news report.
Victoria Bisset for the Washington Post; March 21, 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost....shark-head-dan-snow/ |
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That will go down in the books as an ignoble act by two guys who were not named Barnes, to be forever lost in space.
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rinselberg
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MAR 24, 06:34 PM
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A photograph of a rarely encountered shark was published last year in the Mediterranean Marine Science Journal as part of a research report "New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea". It was described as a goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) which had not previously been known to inhabit the Mediterranean ocean. The research report said that it had been photographed by someone—not a marine biologist or anything like that—who saw it washed up on a beach in Greece and already dead.
As the research report received more scrutiny from the community of marine biologists and other interested parties, it become apparent that it wasn't a goblin shark.
There's now what I see as irrefutable evidence—"beyond any reasonable doubt"—that what was photographed was actually a plastic model or toy that's been selling on eBay.
The image that appeared in a research journal has been marked with red arrows to single out the discrepancies. A photograph of an actual goblin shark is provided for comparison.
It seems someone was just a bit too hasty when they submitted this research report for publication, and the diiigence of the peer review process (if there was one) wasn't exactly "without peer".
"Rare Goblin Shark Washed Up on Greek Beach Is at the Center of a Possible Hoax"
Alexander Haro for The Inertia; March 20, 2023.
https://www.theinertia.com/...le-plastic-toy-hoax/
"A Shark Discovery ‘Didn’t Look Right.’ It Might Have Been a Plastic Toy."
Annie Roth for the New York Times; March 24, 2023.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...ark-plastic-toy.html
| quote | | Scientists have retracted a study that showed a rare goblin shark washed up on a Greek beach after other researchers voiced doubts about the find. |
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williegoat
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MAR 24, 07:03 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
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Bill Mumy strikes again!
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