An Australian diver befriended a baby shark. For years afterwards, whenever the shark would see him, she would swim up to him and demand cuddles.
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Sharks are older than trees. Sharks have…
Sharks are older than trees. Sharks have existed for more than 450 million years, whereas the earliest tree, lived around 350 million years ago.
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In 2018, 3 people walked out of a Texas…
In 2018, 3 people walked out of a Texas aquarium with a grey horn shark hidden in a baby stroller. When authorities arrived at a suspect’s home, they were shocked to find the shark “continuing to thrive” in a tank very similar to the one at the aquarium.
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Are You Scared of Sharks? These 10 Animals Also Cause Death and Destruction.
Steven Spielberg changed our collective psyche when he made Jaws in 1975. Along with creating the summer blockbuster, he also gave the world a fear of sharks!
But film channels, urban legends, and our own paranoia have wrongfully made us fear sharks when there are other threats out there as well. Data shows that the chance of dying thanks to animal encounters stands at one in 1,384,594.
Even so, there are some animals you need to be more careful around. Let’s take a look!
10. Dogs
Data shows that dogs kill up to 28 people in the United States per year.
Dogs aren’t a danger to the general public. In many cases, dogs turn against human owners who have maltreated them.
9. Deer
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Sweet, innocent deer?!
Yes, deer are responsible for up to 120 deaths in the United States every year.
To be fair, expansion into their habitat is responsible for many of these deaths. Cities and towns across the country consistently build roads and highways in their habitat, which increases the likelihood of car accidents.
8. Hippos
These adorable mammals can kill humans by biting or sitting on them.
Up to 500 people die in sub-Saharan Africa every year. They also have extremely sharp teeth, so there’s that.
7. Snakes
Snakes are obviously much smaller than sharks, but they kill about 50,000 people every year.
Some species are more toxic than others, and other types of snakes are closer to humans because of expansion into their natural habitat.
6. Snails
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The humble freshwater snail isn’t harmful on its own, but 200,000 people die on an annual basis because it carries a parasite called schistosomiasis.
The parasite first invades the body, lays eggs that end up in many tissues, and causes symptoms such as anemia that can cause death in up to 10% of those affected.
5. Lions
We all know to stay away from lions if we see any, but they still kill about 100 humans every year.
Many animals on this list often kill humans by accident, but lions have no problem hunting humans at all.
4. Wolves
Wolves are certainly wild, but they don’t usually kill humans on purpose.
Their sharp teeth are only a danger to humans that actively threaten them.
About 10 people die every year from encountering wolves.
3. Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are small and they exist in almost every part of the world.
They reproduce quickly, suck your blood, and bite you before you even have a chance to fight back.
They also carry diseases such as encephalitis, dengue fever, yellow fever, and malaria.
2. Elephants
These giant mammals are actually gentle and pose no threat to humans as long as they have space and are left alone.
Elephants tend to become afraid when they are confined to tight spaces or mistreated. They will then become scared and see humans as aggressors.
Approximately 100 humans die every year because of elephants.
1. Humans
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Yes, humans are the second-deadliest animal on the planet (mosquitoes are actually #1?!?).
But they’re #1 on this list because it’s so unexpected.
Humans kill approximately 475,000 of their fellow brethren every year. Ouch!
What did you think of the animals included on this list? Were you surprised by any of the deadly creatures that kill more people than sharks do on an annual basis?
Share your thoughts in the comments!
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A 330-Million-Year-Old Shark Head Was Found Inside a Cave in Kentucky
Kentucky is synonymous with fried chicken and horse racing.
Apparently we need to add sharks to the list.
Scientists recently discovered a shark skull inside a cave in Kentucky that dates back quite a few years. And we’re not talking a few decades.
The 330-million-year-old skull was found in the 400-mile long Mammoth Cave National Park, which just so happens to be the longest known cave system in the world.
Rick Olson and Rick Toomey, who both work as Mammoth Cave scientists, found the fossil. John-Paul Hodnett led a team of paleontologists in identifying the fossil as one that originated in the Late Missisippian geological period that occurred between 358 to 323 million years ago.
Hodnett could hardly contain his excitement over the unique discovery.
“There’s hardly ever any record at all of sharks’ teeth coming from these rocks,” he told CNN. “So this is a brand new record of sharks from a particular layer of time.”
The Rick duo that found the fossil buried within the limestone cave walls has been hard at work mapping a part of the Kentucky cave system.
Hodnett’s team eventually excavated a 2.5-foot portion of the shark’s jaw. Based on the jaw size, the prehistoric animal would have measured comparably to a modern great white shark.
While the discovery was certainly impressive, it isn’t close to the oldest shark fossil found. Fossilized skin scales of sharks dating back to 450 million years ago were found in Colorado and Central Australia. In fact, the oldest shark teeth on record were found from the Devonian Period, which took place between 418 to 358 million years ago.
“Mammoth Cave has a rich fossil shark record and there’s still much more to uncover,” Hodnett said.
They just found shark teeth and shark cartilage in mammoth cave here in Kentucky that are over 300 million years old…. so my home state used to be an ocean with dinosaur sharks. I think that’s the technical term. You might wanna Wikipedia it though.
— Disco Dalai Lama (@DiscoDalaiLama) February 5, 2020
I guess the discovery would qualify as big news, after all.
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A Study Found That Great White Sharks Are Scared of Killer Whales
Sharks are pretty fearsome creatures – plenty of people are pretty scared of them. So you might not imagine that even one of the largest, fiercest predators in the world fears something else.
And no, it’s not human beings (though with the rate we’re demolishing the shark population, it probably should be – we kill between 100 million and 273 million).
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SharksAccording to new research published in Scientific Reports, the great whites off the Northern California coast turn tail when a pod of orcas show up – and then they avoid the area for up to a year afterward, says scientist Scot Anderson in a statement.
“These are huge white sharks. Some are over 18 feet long, and they usually rule the roost here.”
Every September and December, great white sharks migrate to the Farallon islands to hunt elephant seals – a meal that orcas also enjoy. And when the latter decide to show up for dinner, the former decline to share hunting grounds.
“When confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through,” confirms Dr. Salvador Jorgnsen, a scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the lead author of the study.
Everyone is afraid of something, I suppose, and from what I know of orcas, I wouldn’t be hanging around while they were eating, either!
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A Captive Female Shark Ate a Male Shark Who Wouldn’t Stop Bumping into Her
Women everywhere are likely feeling a bit of solidarity at reading how “needing some space” seems to cross species lines. Take this shark for example.
A female shark at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, Korea, bit and then consumed her male tank-mate over a 21-hour period, with video showing she started with his head and worked her way down.
CALLINGTHE WILDTiger shark female eating a male shark smaller size, the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea
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“Sharks have their own territories,” said an aquarium official. “Sometimes, when they bump into each other, they bite out of astonishment.”
Perhaps, but the fact that she didn’t stop with a surprised bite and went on to, you know, eat him whole, suggests to me that she’d been suffering his presence for longer than a hot minute.
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We’ve all had that guy at work who just will not give us our space no matter what hints we drop, and if he had bumped us at the exact wrong time, well… who is to say he wouldn’t have met the same fate.
Marine specialists don’t expect that the shark will be able to digest her entire meal – in fact, they guess she will throw him up at some point, which only proves to me that she was doing it out of spite.
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More power to her, I say. And let that be a warning to you.
You can find it on Daily Mirror…if you have the stomach for it.
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During one scene in JAWS 2…
During one scene in JAWS 2 the teens’ fear and cries of shark were real, as they were being circled by a 15-foot shark. The production crew at a distance thought they were acting and just gave them a thumbs up.
A Florida man was stranded on a sandbar with sharks…
A Florida man was stranded on a sandbar with sharks circling around him. He kept them at bay with a fishing pole for an hour and a half, after which he remembered he had a cell phone and called for help.
Sharks are older than trees. “Modern” trees lived around…
Sharks are older than trees. “Modern” trees lived around 350 million years ago while sharks have existed for 400 million years.