Fun fact: Great white sharks have an incredible sense of smell, capable of detecting seals from over a mile away, making them highly effective hunters in the ocean! #SharkWeek
Favorite @SharkWeek fact I’ve learned so far? You can measure shark bites at a distance by taking a photo and measuring the pixels #makozilla#sharkweek@Discovery
🦈Members of @TheSemmensLab at Scripps Oceanography are doing some fin-tastic research to study and understand shark populations and conservation management! They're teaming up with @REEF_org to develop a time series of shark and ray sighting probabilities in multiple countries.
Looking forward to Great White North tonight at 8pm during #SharkWeek@ABC4EXPLORE heads out on an expedition along Nova Scotia’s coast to investigate a surge of Great White Shark encounters and determine whether the new population is the largest in the world.
Oh, you want more sharks?! We've got you covered with more #SharkWeek TONIGHT at 8p on @Discovery. Check out the lineup 👇
8p: Great White North 🦈
9p: Expedition Unknown: Sharks vs Nazis in Paradise 🏝️
10p: Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan 👽
👀 @joshuagates gets a little help from the sharks in his search for a lost wreck sunk by a Nazi U-Boat during World War II 🦈
#SharkWeek continues tonight with #ExpeditionUnknown: Sharks vs Nazis in Paradise at 9p on @Discovery!
“Here are what the [MSC]’s new requirements for sharks caught in certified sustainable fisheries mean.”
The world’s leading sustainable seafood certification standard just made some big changes for sharks – Southern Fried Science https://t.co/aiFReV1DdG
#MAKOSHARKMONDAY
Despite their speed, the shortfin mako shark is listed at Endangered on the IUCN Red List. They are among the most vulnerable and valuable sharks taken on the high seas.
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#sharkweek#savesharks