‘An amazing discovery’: Scientists hit upon first nursery for hammerhead sharks in the Galápagos The scientists were also able to tag one of the elusive species for the first time, and hope their findings will lead to greater protection. 05/5/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
How Sharks could have $30M-plus in salary-cap space to reshape roster So how are the Sharks going to get better this offseason? Good news, it can’t get worse … right? The 2023-24 Sharks were the second-worst team of the salary cap era, their .287 points percentage just ... 05/5/2024 - 11:03 am | View Link
Sharks Prospect Will Smith Added To USA's World Championship Roster San Jose Sharks top prospect Will Smith will get his closest taste of pro hockey as he was added to Team USA's 2024 IIHF World Championship roster. 05/5/2024 - 5:56 am | View Link
Sharks ‘adapting their movements and routines,’ great white researchers discover Do great white sharks change their behaviors in different environments, or do the apex predators follow the same routines regardless of location? 05/3/2024 - 9:45 am | View Link
2024 Sharks Draft Lottery Preview NHL Draft Lottery, to be held on Tues., May 7, will determine the draft selection order for the first 16 picks in the first round. Only teams that did not qualify for the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs are ... 05/3/2024 - 7:42 am | View Link
Hammerhead Sharks | National Geographic 20 to 30 years. Size: 13 to 20 feet. Weight: 500 to 1,000 pounds. Size relative to a 6-ft man: Hammerhead sharks are consummate predators that use their oddly shaped heads to improve their... 05/4/2024 - 3:38 am | View Website
12 Cool Hammerhead Shark Facts 1. The hammerhead part of the shark’s head is called a cephalofoil. The hammerhead shark’s cephalofoil serves many purposes. It can help them navigate and find food, and it can also help them swim by boosting the hydrodynamic shape of their body. 1. 2. They use their head as a weapon when hunting! 05/4/2024 - 2:12 am | View Website
Great Hammerhead | Smithsonian Ocean (Laura Rock, Florida) Perhaps the most distinctive marine animal of all—the Great Hammerhead has a unique hammer-shaped head that gives it large visual range. Like other sharks, the hammerhead has many teeth. More so than many think—about 17 rows of teeth on the upper and lower jaws. The shark feeds on fish and other marine prey such as octopi. 05/4/2024 - 1:57 am | View Website
Hammerhead Shark: Characteristics, Habitat, and Behavior Hammerhead sharks are found in tropical and temperate marine waters near the coasts and above the continental shelves. They are widely distributed and can be found in all oceans of the world. The specific habitat preference of these predators depends upon the species. 05/3/2024 - 8:21 pm | View Website
Great Hammerhead Shark | Oceana Great hammerhead sharks are apex predators and can be found worldwide in coastal, warm waters that are 68 degrees (20 degrees Celsius) or higher. Unlike scalloped hammerhead sharks, great hammerhead sharks are solitary and migrate long distances upward of 756 miles (1,200 km) alone. 05/3/2024 - 7:31 pm | View Website
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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