You know? I don't think this is a very good kid's gift. SHARKS ARE NOT TOYS!

Well, sure. You see this picture of Batman battling a shark with a light saber and you think your life hasn't changed. Are you SURE, though?



Via The Daily What and Gamefreaks.

Scientists test whether sea creatures will risk suffocating themselves for a bite of tasty pork. Surprise, surprise, sharks are eating machines and only care about the free meal. I mostly feel bad for the pig carcass.

We seriously didn't get enough craptastic shark/octopus action in Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus? We need Sharktopus? I don't think so SyFy. Of course I'll watch it, but it has as much of a chance of being good as the St. Louis Rams.
Note: This movie has the rare distinction of earning the Unlikely Words "Crappy Movies" tag before I've even seen it.

Frankly, the terrible concept of a large quantity of sharks falling on my head is one reason not to have a shark filled aquarium you can walk under, but if you're not going to make it right, don't bother.

Other thoughts:
-No fewer than 3 different friends sent this to me. Uh, thanks.
-Remind me to add this post to the end of Dubai post I'm eventually going to write.
-The spokesman quoted in the above article is from the civil defense force. If Dubai can consider sharks an enemy of the state, such that the military is responsible for dealing with them, why can't we?

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus was an awful movie and bad science is just one of the reasons. To clarify, the mega shark would have had to swim 710 KM/H to jump high enough to bite that airplane. For reference, a Tomahawk Missile flies 880 KM/H. Frankly, though, a shark that swims that fast is terrifying.

You always hear that sharks are just as scared of us as we are of them, but it's just not true.

A 14-year-old girl's quick-thinking enabled her to escape serious injury after a shark lunged at her in waist-deep water at Oreti Beach, near Invercargill, last night.

Carina Avila sent over this picture of sharks with human teeth. They may be smiling, but they'll still eat you.

CollegeHumor posits a question. Is a bear shark more terrifying than a regular shark? I'm not saying whether it is or isn't, but reasonable people may disagree.



Via The Daily What.

This interview from The Phoenix is full of nuggets like this one about sharks' eyes:

A marine educator in Hawaii e-mailed me this question about shark eyes. What she says is that no one seems to know what color eyes the great white has. She's wondering if anyone's figured that out.
If you ask Quint from Jaws, he calls 'em [doing an impression of the Robert Shaw character's grizzled voice] "doll's eyes — lookin' at you with those doll's eyes." You gotta love that soliloquy. And he calls them doll's eyes because they look lifeless. And they look lifeless because there's no twinkle in them, and there's no coloration in them. You're basically looking through the [great white] shark's pupil into the darkness of the back of its eye.