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www.nytimes.com
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| | | | | The largest shark that ever lived may have vanished in part because the comparatively smaller great white had a taste for the same prey. | |
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www.bbc.co.uk
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| | | | | A killer whale is captured on camera hunting and "eviscerating" a great white shark in less than two minutes. | |
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kids.nationalgeographic.com
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| | | | | When a great white shark is born, along with up to a dozen siblings, it immediately swims away from its mother. Born on the east and west coasts of North America, the south of Africa and southwest Australia, baby sharks are on their own right from the start. Their mother may see them only as prey. At birth the baby shark is already about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long; as it grows it may reach a length up to four times that. The pup (which is what a baby shark is called) will live its life at the top of the ocean's food chain. But before it grows larger, the pup must avoid predators bigger than it is-including other great white sharks. Many baby sharks do not survive their first year. Young great white sharks eat fish (including other sharks) and rays. As they gro... | |
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www.theguardian.com
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| | | It's difficult to imagine the voracious great white shark as prey. Could orcas really be overpowering them and removing their livers? | ||
