The older I get the less I want to swim in the ocean

[High Lord Tolkien]

Then why do they call it "GREAT white shark"?

Poultry propaganda?

[dANdeLION]

No, I think that would be "Eet Mor Shark"

[High Lord Tolkien]

I thought it scary that they found out that some sharks can "walk" short distances.......
NOW THOSE SUCKERS HAVE FEET!!!!!!

thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/200 ... &sec=North

[stonemaybe]

my street....

[High Lord Tolkien]

[Cameraman Jenn]

Actually some shark is very delicious, mako and thresher for example.

[I'm Murrin]

(Anyone else watch the ep of Planet Earth with the sharks? Wow.)

Edit: For those that haven't: link.

[CovenantJr]

my street....

I thought it scary that they found out that some sharks can "walk" short distances.......
NOW THOSE SUCKERS HAVE FEET!!!!!!

thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/200 ... &sec=North

AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!

[Elfgirl]

Ah, you're all a bunch of wooly woofters! I read on a 'feminine hygiene product' which gives all lovely kinds of trivia on the back of the adhesive strips that more people are killed by COWS than sharks per annum...

[sgt.null]

we have six nurse sharks at the zoo. they are kind of like puppies at feeding time. they are so gosh darn cute.

[Fist and Faith]

Ah, you're all a bunch of wooly woofters! I read on a 'feminine hygiene product' which gives all lovely kinds of trivia on the back of the adhesive strips that more people are killed by COWS than sharks per annum...

I...

Wh...


I think I'd better just let this one go.

[Cameraman Jenn]

ummm.....yeah, what Fist said....

[High Lord Tolkien]

Sorry but no one can convince me that sharks aren't bent on mankind's destruction.
Through out the last 6 years I've made careful note how shark sightings "conveniently" match terrorist attacks or natural catastrophes.
Look at the facts:

Remember the shark swarms off the coasts of Florida back in 2001?
Then.....9/11.

"Sharks found to walk on land"?
Then the Indian Ocean tsunami.

"Sharks swim upriver in fresh water to kill swimmers"?
Then Hurricane Katrina

Perhaps you need more than just my biased opinion.
How about this unaltered graph from the Florida Museum of Natural History?
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/White/Decade.htm



Maybe sharks are using Muslim extremists today like they used the Nazis in the past.

This graph clearly shows that Middle Eastern peoples have some kind of deal made with the Shark Overlords:



And now it's reported that some sharks have grown feet.
God only knows what horror awaits us all now!!
We need to build concrete walls along are shores and begin wholesale production and IMMEDIATE USE of nuclear torpedoes and depth charges to KILL every last shark on earth before they also grow wings and enslave us all.

[stonemaybe]

^ that piechart - isn't Mongolia landlocked?

[CovenantJr]

HLT...I am in awe of that post.

[Fist and Faith]

Truly! HLT, that's as good as it gets!

[Avatar]

--A

[Wyldewode]

Great post, HLT!

I have to say, sharks don't bother me at all. . . I figure that I have a right to expect them if I am swimming in an area where they are prevalent, and I will see the darned things coming.

Noo. . . the things that get me are jellyfish. Those things are like little ninjas--you never see them coming! And some have fatal stings.
Last year I was swimming in the Mediterranean off of Cannes and was nearly taken down by a huge jellyfish with a grudge. After that fun experience I refused to go back into the sea for the remainder of the trip--even when we went down to Sorrento. While everyone else went to the beach I enjoyed the comforts of a nice, civilized (and jellyfish-free) swimming pool.

[High Lord Tolkien]

We're doomed!


"Hammerhead shark gives "virgin" birth"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A captive shark gave birth to a pup without the benefit of sperm, the first time such a case has been documented in a shark, U.S. and British researchers said on Wednesday.

Scientists had suspected that sharks could reproduce through parthenogenesis, a word meaning "virgin birth," but had never been able to document it.

The hammerhead shark, captured off the Florida Keys, had been held with other females for three years when she had the pup, Paulo Prodohl of Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland and colleagues reported in the journal Biology Letters.

The pup was killed by a stingray soon after birth and the researchers studied its tissue. They found no evidence of male input.

Parthenogenesis occurs when a female egg cell develops into an embryo on its own, without sperm. It has been seen in a number of species, notably bees.

"Parthenogenesis has been documented in all major jawed vertebrate lineages except mammals" and sharks, the researchers wrote in their report.

"Reports of captive female sharks giving birth despite being held in the extended absence of males have generally been ascribed to prior matings coupled with long-term sperm storage by the females."

But the three female sharks "had been held in the absence of males for 3 years, since they were wild caught in the Florida Keys as immature animals less than 1 year old," the researchers wrote.

"At least 2 years away from the age of first maturity, it is improbable that they were capable of sexual activity and sperm storage prior to capture."

The findings have implications for preserving endangered species such as sharks, the researchers said. And they suggested that because parthenogenesis is difficult to detect, it may be worth looking for in other species.

[danlo]

Mary was a shark? **runs away like mad!!!**