The colourful story of Valerie Taylor premieres at Sundance Film Festival 2021. With husband Ron, she made a dramatic switch from shark-hunting to shark filming, even shooting footage for Jaws Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266258-playing-with-sharks-review-the-amazing-woman-who-helped-film-jaws/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: jaws
A giant undersea sand worm’s fossilized lair
In 20-million-=year-old rock off the coast of Taiwan, researchers have discovered what they think is the fossilized burrow of a giant, predatory sand worm. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/scientists-find-evidence-of-giant-predatory-sand-worms…
10 times sharks made our jaws drop in 2020
Here are our favorite stories about sharks from 2020. Source: https://www.livescience.com/shark-discoveres-of-2020.html
Wide-eyed prehistoric shark hid its sharpest teeth in nightmare jaws
New analysis of jaws from a shark that lived 370 million years ago revealed a horrific twist (literally) to the predator’s toothy grin. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-shark-nightmare-jaws.html
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube’s Most-Watched Video of All Time
Baby Shark, the infuriatingly catchy children’s rhyme recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most-watched video ever on YouTube. The BBC reports: The song has now been played 7.04 billion times, overtaking the previous record holder Despacito, the Latin pop smash by singer Luis Fonsi. Played back-to-back, that would mean Baby Shark has been streamed continuously for 30,187 years….
How does fog form?
Fog forms when the air cools and water vapor condenses. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/what-is-fog-how-does-fog-form…
Cretaceous ‘terror crocodile’ crushed dinosaurs with banana-size teeth
New analysis of the ancient crocodylian Deinosuchus confirms that this apex predator had jaws and teeth that were powerful enough to subdue massive dinosaur prey. Source: https://www.livescience.com/terror-crocodile-banana-teeth.html
Scythelike jaws of Cretaceous ‘hell ant’ clutch a baby cockroach in an amber tomb
The death strike of a Cretaceous “hell ant” from 99 million years ago is preserved in amber, revealing how these demonic-looking ants hunted. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hell-ant-in-amber.html
Pliers smaller than an ant’s jaws are controlled by optical fibres
Microscopic filaments added to the end of optical fibres act as tiny pliers that can pick up objects just tens of microns in size Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248589-pliers-smaller-than-an-ants-jaws-are-controlled-by-optical-fibres/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Evolution: Why it seems to have a direction, and what to expect next
Does evolution always and inevitably generates greater diversity and complexity, having a predictable direction? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/evolution-direction-what-to-expect-next…