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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A great white shark weighing over 1,400 pounds is lurking off the North Carolina coast.
Contender is pretty big for a male, sure. But in great white shark size contests, it's the females who take the cake.
A live tracker shows the gargantuan predator dubbed Contender — an homage to the vessels that the research nonprofit OCEARCH ...
A marine research nonprofit say they have spotted their largest ever shark just off the coast of Nantucket. The massive cartilaginous fish—nicknamed “Contender” for its 13 feet, 9 inches and more than ...
Geraldine Fernandez and Neil Hammerschlag tell The National about the moment a male great white shark made a surprise ...
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The largest great white shark tagged by a marine research group in the Atlantic Ocean resurfaced off the coast of Massachusetts this week.
The second night of Discovery’s Shark Week features competition between male and female great white sharks, Jaws taking on Mega Croc and first-hand accounts of shark attacks. Shark Week airs at 8 p.m.
January 17, 2025, researchers captured and tagged a massive great white shark about 45 miles off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border. The shark, dubbed Contender, might be the largest male ...
OCEARCH, a non-profit research organisation that tracks marine animals, tagged the 30-year-old male great white shark named "Contender" in the waters east of Massachusetts ...
Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged by Ocearch in the Atlantic, was recently spotted off the coast of ...