Journal articles: 'Great white shark'

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Hueter, Robert E., R. Ellis, and J. E. McCosker. "Great White Shark." Copeia 1994, no. 4 (December 19, 1994): 1057. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1446736.

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Compagno, L. J. V. "Great white shark." Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 3, no. 2 (June 1993): 188–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00045233.

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Cermak, Iri. "Jumping the Shark: White Shark Representations in Great White Serial Killer Lives—The Fear and the (Pseudo-)Science." Journalism and Media 2, no. 4 (October 13, 2021): 584–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2040035.

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Sharks are among the most endangered nonhuman animals on the planet because of industrial fishing, the shark meat and fin trade, expanding recreational fishing, and other anthropogenic causes. White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), the most visible in popular culture, remain vulnerable (VU, IUCN Red List) and understudied, although population recovery is having a measure of success in regions like the Eastern Pacific and the Northern Atlantic of the United States. As numbers rise, Jaws associations also remain in vogue in programming that emphasizes human–wildlife** conflict such as Shark Week’s Great White Serial Killer Lives. Network marketing typically promotes this content by hyping shark science. Textual analysis, however, suggests that exposure to pseudoscientific narratives and unethical fear-inducing images is counterproductive to wider support for conservation programs and public recognition for sharks’ rights to their habitats.

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Johnston, Emmett M., Lewis G. Halsey, Nicholas L. Payne, Alison A. Kock, Gil Iosilevskii, Bren Whelan, and Jonathan D. R. Houghton. "Latent power of basking sharks revealed by exceptional breaching events." Biology Letters 14, no. 9 (September 2018): 20180537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0537.

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The fast swimming and associated breaching behaviour of endothermic mackerel sharks is well suited to the capture of agile prey. In contrast, the observed but rarely documented breaching capability of basking sharks is incongruous to their famously languid lifestyle as filter-feeding planktivores. Indeed, by analysing video footage and an animal-instrumented data logger, we found that basking sharks exhibit the same vertical velocity (approx. 5 m s −1 ) during breach events as the famously powerful predatory great white shark. We estimate that an 8-m, 2700-kg basking shark, recorded breaching at 5 m s −1 and accelerating at 0.4 m s −2 , expended mechanical energy at a rate of 5.5 W kg −1 ; a mass-specific energetic cost comparable to that of the great white shark. The energy cost of such a breach is equivalent to around 1/17th of the daily standard metabolic cost for a basking shark, while the ratio is about half this for a great white shark. While breaches by basking sharks must serve a different function to white shark breaches, their similar breaching speeds questions our perception of the physiology of large filter-feeding fish.

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Bush, Elizabeth. "The Great White Shark Scientist by Sy Montgomery." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 69, no. 10 (2016): 535–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2016.0506.

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George, Alison. "Shark researcher: A great white landed in my boat." New Scientist 211, no. 2824 (August 2011): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(11)61896-4.

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Dicken, M. L. "First observations of young of the year and juvenile great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) scavenging from a whale carcass." Marine and Freshwater Research 59, no. 7 (2008): 596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf07223.

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Observations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) scavenging from cetacean carcasses are rare and have only been reported in the scientific literature for large (>3.5 m total length (TL)) individuals. Between 13 October and 25 November 2006, young of the year and juvenile great white sharks were observed scavenging from the carcass of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Algoa Bay, South Africa. Although more than one shark scavenged from the carcass, simultaneous feeding was not observed. The sharks showed a clear preference for soft tissue at sites along the mouth of the carcass. Protective ocular rotation was rarely observed and none of the sharks exhibited palatoquadrate protrusion while feeding. These observations provide a new insight into the foraging behaviour of young of the year and juvenile great white sharks. The prevalence of small great white sharks (1.5 m TL) and the absence of any individuals greater than 3.65 m TL suggest that Algoa Bay may function as a nursery area for great white sharks in South Africa. This information is crucial not only to improve our understanding of great white shark biology, but also for their long-term management and conservation in South Africa.

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Lee, Yuong-Nam. "Great white shark tooth from the Seogwipo Formation, Jeju Island." Journal of the geological society of Korea 50, no. 5 (October 31, 2014): 643. http://dx.doi.org/10.14770/jgsk.2014.50.5.643.

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Popa, Daniel, and Karen Van Hoesen. "A “Shark Encounter”: Delayed Primary Closure and Prophylactic Antibiotic Treatment of a Great White Shark Bite." Journal of Emergency Medicine 51, no. 5 (November 2016): 552–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2016.05.066.

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Connor, Richard C., and Michael R. Heithaus. "APPROACH BY GREAT WHITE SHARK ELICITS FLIGHT RESPONSE IN BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS." Marine Mammal Science 12, no. 4 (August 26, 2006): 602–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.1996.tb00074.x.

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Whitenack, Lisa B., Brady L. Mickley, Julia Saltzman, Stephen M. Kajiura, Catherine C. Macdonald, and David S. Shiffman. "A content analysis of 32 years of Shark Week documentaries." PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (November 3, 2022): e0256842. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256842.

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Despite evidence of their importance to marine ecosystems, at least 32% of all chondrichthyan species are estimated or assessed as threatened with extinction. In addition to the logistical difficulties of effectively conserving wide-ranging marine species, shark conservation is believed to have been hindered in the past by public perceptions of sharks as dangerous to humans. Shark Week is a high-profile, international programming event that has potentially enormous influence on public perceptions of sharks, shark research, shark researchers, and shark conservation. However, Shark Week has received regular criticism for poor factual accuracy, fearmongering, bias, and inaccurate representations of science and scientists. This research analyzes the content and titles of Shark Week episodes across its entire 32 years of programming to determine if there are trends in species covered, research techniques featured, expert identity, conservation messaging, type of programming, and portrayal of sharks. We analyzed titles from 272 episodes (100%) of Shark Week programming and the content of all available (201; 73.9%) episodes. Our data demonstrate that the majority of episodes are not focused on shark bites, although such shows are common and many Shark Week programs frame sharks around fear, risk, and adrenaline. While criticisms of disproportionate attention to particular charismatic species (e.g. great whites, bull sharks, and tiger sharks) are accurate and supported by data, 79 shark species have been featured briefly at least once. Shark Week’s depictions of research and of experts are biased towards a small set of (typically visual and expensive) research methodologies and (mostly white, mostly male) experts, including presentation of many white male non-scientists as scientific experts. While sharks are more often portrayed negatively than positively, limited conservation messaging does appear in 53% of episodes analyzed. Results suggest that as a whole, while Shark Week is likely contributing to the collective public perception of sharks as bad, even relatively small alterations to programming decisions could substantially improve the presentation of sharks and shark science and conservation issues.

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Tirard, Philippe, Claude Maillaud, and Philippe Borsa. "Fatal tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier attack in New Caledonia erroneously ascribed to great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias." Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 33 (July 2015): 68–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2015.04.011.

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Hiroko, Kokuba. "Characteristic fine structures of uterine activity of a pregnant great white shark." Placenta 59 (November 2017): 171–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2017.08.024.

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Amorim, Alberto Ferreira, Carlos A. Arfelli, Hugo Bornatowski, and Nigel E. Hussey. "Rare giants? A large female great white shark caught in Brazilian waters." Marine Biodiversity 48, no. 3 (February 25, 2017): 1687–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0656-9.

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Shimada, Kenshu. "Paleoecological relationships of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz)." Journal of Paleontology 71, no. 5 (September 1997): 926–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600003585x.

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Several specimens of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz), from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas suggest that the shark fed on teleosts, mosasaurs, and possibly plesiosaurs. These animals are active vertebrates, so C. mantelli probably occupied the apex of the food chain in the Late Cretaceous seas. This top predator, however, was probably scavenged frequently by anacoracid sharks. Carcharodon carcharias (great white shark) and carcharhinid sharks are considered as the modern guild counterparts for Cretoxyrhina mantelli and anacoracids, respectively.

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Wroe, S., D. R. Huber, M. Lowry, C. McHenry, K. Moreno, P. Clausen, T. L. Ferrara, E. Cunningham, M. N. Dean, and A. P. Summers. "Three-dimensional computer analysis of white shark jaw mechanics: how hard can a great white bite?" Journal of Zoology 276, no. 4 (December 2008): 336–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00494.x.

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Scannella, Danilo, Sergio Vitale, Federico Di Maio, Fabrizio Serena, Bruno Zava, Francesco Colloca, Fabio Falsone, and Michele Luca Geraci. "A new record of a great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias(Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) in the Strait of Sicily, Central Mediterranean Sea." Acta Adriatica 61, no. 2 (December 28, 2020): 231–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.32582/aa.61.2.13.

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In November 2015 an immature male individual of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758), was caught as by-catch by a bottom trawler in the Strait of Sicily, in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The shark, reaching 266 cm in length and weighing 290 Kg, was identified and measured by means of a video provided by fishers. This record is discussed considering the available information on the presence of the great white shark in the area and confirms the importance of the Strait of Sicily for the conservation of this vulnerable species.

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Lauff, Randy. ""Great White Shark: Myth and Reality" by Alexandrine Civard-Racinais, 2017. [book review]." Canadian Field-Naturalist 131, no. 4 (June 5, 2018): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v131i4.2094.

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Chang, Chia-Hao, Kwang-Tsao Shao, Yeong-Shin Lin, Yi-Chiao Fang, and Hsuan-Ching Ho. "The complete mitochondrial genome of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae)." Mitochondrial DNA 25, no. 5 (July 10, 2013): 357–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2013.803092.

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Robbins, Rachel, Barry Bruce, and Andrew Fox. "First reports of proliferative lesions in the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias L., and bronze whaler shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus Günther." Journal of Fish Diseases 37, no. 11 (November 21, 2013): 997–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12203.

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Clua, Eric, and Bernard Séret. "Unprovoked Fatal Shark Attack in Lifou Island (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, South Pacific) by a Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias." American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 31, no. 3 (September 2010): 281–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/paf.0b013e3181ec7cb8.

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Pardini, Amanda T., Catherine S. Jones, Michael C. Scholl, and Leslie R. Noble. "Isolation and characterization of dinucleotide microsatellite loci in the Great White Shark,Carcharodon carcharias." Molecular Ecology 9, no. 8 (August 2000): 1176–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00954-4.x.

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Cione, Alberto Luis, Daniel Alfredo Cabrera, and María Julia Barla. "Oldest record of the Great White Shark (Lamnidae, Carcharodon; Miocene) in the Southern Atlantic." Geobios 45, no. 2 (March 2012): 167–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2011.06.002.

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Sato, Keiichi, Masaru Nakamura, Taketeru Tomita, Minoru Toda, Kei Miyamoto, and Ryo Nozu. "How great white sharks nourish their embryos to a large size: evidence of lipid histotrophy in lamnoid shark reproduction." Biology Open 5, no. 9 (September 15, 2016): 1211–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.017939.

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Moyer, Joshua K., Mark L. Riccio, and William E. Bemis. "Development and microstructure of tooth histotypes in the blue shark,Prionace glauca(Carcharhiniformes:Carcharhinidae) and the great white shark,Carcharodon carcharias(Lamniformes:Lamnidae)." Journal of Morphology 276, no. 7 (April 3, 2015): 797–817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20380.

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Wcisel, Michelle, Wilfred Chivell, and Michael D. Gottfried. "A Potential Predation Attempt by a Great White Shark on an Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin." South African Journal of Wildlife Research 40, no. 2 (October 2010): 184–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3957/056.040.0212.

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Shivji, Mahmood S., Demian D. Chapman, Ellen K. Pikitch, and Paul W. Raymond. "Genetic profiling reveals illegal international trade in fins of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias." Conservation Genetics 6, no. 6 (December 21, 2005): 1035–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-005-9082-9.

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Mixon, Franklin G., and Chandini Sankaran. "Men in Grey Suits: Shark Activity and Congestion of the Surfing Commons." Sustainability 11, no. 11 (June 3, 2019): 3114. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11113114.

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This study extends recent research on informal property rights at surf breaks by exploring the process through which nature, by establishing conditions conducive (or not) to the presence of sharks, shapes the baseline level of exploitation by surfers of the common-pool resource represented by surf breaks. Since 1980, there have been nine fatal shark attacks off the coast of California, and in all nine cases the great white shark was the offending species. Given this inherent danger, the presence of large sharks mitigates, at least to some degree, the tendency toward the ‘tragedy of the commons’ in the case of surf breaks. Using data on surf break congestion, surf break quality, shark activity, and other key variables from 144 surf breaks in California, empirical results from OLS and ordered probit models presented in this study indicate that surf breaks in California that are associated with the highest levels of shark activity tend to be less congested, perhaps by as much as 28%, than their counterparts that are visited less often by sharks.

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Dolganov, V. N. "The capture of a great white shark Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus, 1758 (Carcharodontidae) in peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan)." Russian Journal of Marine Biology 38, no. 1 (January 2012): 88–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s106307401201004x.

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Le Croizier, Gaël, Anne Lorrain, Jeroen E. Sonke, E. Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Omar Santana-Morales, Marc Aquino-Baleytó, et al. "The Twilight Zone as a Major Foraging Habitat and Mercury Source for the Great White Shark." Environmental Science & Technology 54, no. 24 (November 25, 2020): 15872–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05621.

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Nyberg, Kevin G., Charles N. Ciampaglio, and Gregory A. Wray. "Tracing the ancestry of the great white shark,Carcharodon carcharias, using morphometric analyses of fossil teeth." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, no. 4 (December 11, 2006): 806–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[806:ttaotg]2.0.co;2.

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Julio, Derek. "Circling the Blood in the Water: The Difficulties in Endangered Species Protections for the Great White Shark." Natural Resources 05, no. 11 (2014): 666–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/nr.2014.511058.

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Kirkwood, Roger, and John Dickie. "MOBBING OF A GREAT WHITE SHARK (CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS) BY ADULT MALE AUSTRALIAN FUR SEALS (ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS DORIFERUS)." Marine Mammal Science 21, no. 2 (April 2005): 336–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2005.tb01234.x.

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Bauernfeind, Robert. "Jona und der Hai Zu einem frühneuzeitlichen Hai-Präparat zwischen Exegese und Naturgeschichte." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 82, no. 2 (July 11, 2019): 166–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2019-2002.

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Abstract A seventeenth-century dry preparation of a porbeagle which was combined with a wooden sculpture of the prophet Jonah is analyzed using pictorial theories that emphasize the paradox of preparations being both subject and material of a visual representation. It explains the combination of Jonah and the shark by referring to speculations of early-modern natural history that the large fish that devoured Jonah must have been a shark. The preparation’s characteristic posture appears to be an adaptation of the depiction of a great white shark in Konrad Gessner’s Historia Animalium (1558), which had itself been drawn after a deformed dry preparation. The preparation of the porbeagle – probably made in an ecclesiastical context – thus represents less itself than a large shark.

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Stewardson, C. L., and M. Brett. "Aggressive behaviour of an adult male Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) towards a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)." African Zoology 35, no. 1 (April 2000): 147–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2000.11407201.

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Gubili, Chrysoula, Ryan Johnson, Enrico Gennari, W. Hermann Oosthuizen, Deon Kotze, Mike Meÿer, David W. Sims, Catherine S. Jones, and Leslie Robert Noble. "Concordance of genetic and fin photo identification in the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, off Mossel Bay, South Africa." Marine Biology 156, no. 10 (June 24, 2009): 2199–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1233-y.

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Antunes, Miguel Telleres, and Ausenda Cáceres Balbino. "THE GREAT WHITE SHARK Carcharodon carcharias (LINNÉ, 1758) IN THE PLIOCENE OF PORTUGAL AND ITS EARLY DISTRIBUTION IN EASTERN ATLANTIC." Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 25, no. 1 (December 12, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/sjp.25.1.18902.

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Maliet, Vincent, Christian Reynaud, and Christian Capapé. "Occurrence of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes: Lamnidae), off Corsica (northern Mediterranean): historical and contemporary records." Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria 43, no. 4 (December 31, 2013): 323–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/aip2013.43.4.11.

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Leone, Agostino, Gregory N. Puncher, Francesco Ferretti, Emilio Sperone, Sandro Tripepi, Primo Micarelli, Andrea Gambarelli, et al. "Pliocene colonization of the Mediterranean by Great White Shark inferred from fossil records, historical jaws, phylogeographic and divergence time analyses." Journal of Biogeography 47, no. 5 (February 11, 2020): 1119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13794.

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Ferrara, Toni L., Philip Boughton, Eve Slavich, and Stephen Wroe. "A Novel Method for Single Sample Multi-Axial Nanoindentation of Hydrated Heterogeneous Tissues Based on Testing Great White Shark Jaws." PLoS ONE 8, no. 11 (November 19, 2013): e81196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081196.

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O'Connell, Craig P., Sara Andreotti, Michael Rutzen, Michael Meӱer, and Pingguo He. "The use of permanent magnets to reduce elasmobranch encounter with a simulated beach net. 2. The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)." Ocean & Coastal Management 97 (August 2014): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.11.006.

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Nanni, Loris, and Stefano Ghidoni. "How could a subcellular image, or a painting by Van Gogh, be similar to a great white shark or to a pizza?" Pattern Recognition Letters 85 (January 2017): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2016.11.011.

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SAYAMA, Shotaro, Koichi KATOH, Masanori KATSUKI, Yasuhiro KAWASHIMA, Toshihito KAMEI, and Hiroto TANAKA. "Study on the robustness of the riblets mimicking dermal denticles of a great white shark (Carcharodon Carcharias) to change in flow velocity." Proceedings of the Fluids engineering conference 2020 (2020): OS05–02. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmefed.2020.os05-02.

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Cione, A. L., and M. Bonomo. "Great white shark teeth used as pendants and possible tools by early-middle Holocene terrestrial mammal hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Pampas (Southern South America)." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 13, no. 4 (2003): 222–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.678.

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Boessenecker, Robert W., Dana J. Ehret, Douglas J. Long, Morgan Churchill, Evan Martin, and Sarah J. Boessenecker. "The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific." PeerJ 7 (February 13, 2019): e6088. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6088.

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The extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon is the last member of the predatory megatoothed lineage and is reported from Neogene sediments from nearly all continents. The timing of the extinction of Otodus megalodon is thought to be Pliocene, although reports of Pleistocene teeth fuel speculation that Otodus megalodon may still be extant. The longevity of the Otodus lineage (Paleocene to Pliocene) and its conspicuous absence in the modern fauna begs the question: when and why did this giant shark become extinct? Addressing this question requires a densely sampled marine vertebrate fossil record in concert with a robust geochronologic framework. Many historically important basins with stacked Otodus-bearing Neogene marine vertebrate fossil assemblages lack well-sampled and well-dated lower and upper Pliocene strata (e.g., Atlantic Coastal Plain). The fossil record of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, provides such an ideal sequence of assemblages preserved within well-dated lithostratigraphic sequences. This study reviews all records of Otodus megalodon from post-Messinian marine strata from western North America and evaluates their reliability. All post-Zanclean Otodus megalodon occurrences from the eastern North Pacific exhibit clear evidence of reworking or lack reliable provenance; the youngest reliable records of Otodus megalodon are early Pliocene, suggesting an extinction at the early-late Pliocene boundary (∼3.6 Ma), corresponding with youngest occurrences of Otodus megalodon in Japan, the North Atlantic, and Mediterranean. This study also reevaluates a published dataset, thoroughly vetting each occurrence and justifying the geochronologic age of each, as well as excluding several dubious records. Reanalysis of the dataset using optimal linear estimation resulted in a median extinction date of 3.51 Ma, somewhat older than a previously proposed Pliocene-Pleistocene extinction date (2.6 Ma). Post-middle Miocene oceanographic changes and cooling sea surface temperature may have resulted in range fragmentation, while alongside competition with the newly evolved great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) during the Pliocene may have led to the demise of the megatoothed shark. Alternatively, these findings may also suggest a globally asynchronous extinction of Otodus megalodon.

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Springer, Victor G., A. P. Klimley, and David G. Ainley. "Great White Sharks. 1996." Copeia 1997, no. 2 (May 13, 1997): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1447776.

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Saayman, Melville. "The non-consumptive value of selected marine species at Table Mountain National Park: An exploratory study." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 17, no. 2 (March 6, 2014): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v17i2.455.

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This exploratory study aimed to determine firstly the non-consumptive value of five marine species (whales, the Great White shark, penguins, dolphins and seals) and secondly the socio-demographic and behavioural variables that influence willingness to pay to see these species. This was achieved by means of a structured questionnaire survey conducted at Table Mountain National Park, the largest urban national park in South Africa. The data consisted of 319 fully-completed questionnaires. These were analysed using factor analyses and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis. The results showed that the variables influencing willingness to pay differed from species to species, with the largest differences being found in behavioural rather than socio-demographic variables. In showing how much respondents were willing to pay to see the various species and which species they preferred, the results also highlighted the non-consumptive value of the species.

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Ehrenberg, Rachel. "Zoology: Great spots for white sharks." Science News 173, no. 9 (September 30, 2009): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/scin.2008.5591730919.

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Pardini, Amanda T., Catherine S. Jones, Leslie R. Noble, Brian Kreiser, Hamish Malcolm, Barry D. Bruce, John D. Stevens, et al. "Sex-biased dispersal of great white sharks." Nature 412, no. 6843 (July 2001): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35084125.

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Hughes, Benjamin, and Tilo Burghardt. "Automated Visual Fin Identification of Individual Great White Sharks." International Journal of Computer Vision 122, no. 3 (October 13, 2016): 542–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11263-016-0961-y.

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