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Enormous Shark’s Secret Hideout Finally Discovered

wired.com — After half a century of searching, scientists have finally discovered what happens to the world’s second largest shark every winter: It has a Caribbean hideout.

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  • badtiki, on 05/08/2009, -4/+249We're going to need a bigger boat....
  • thelastcivilian, on 05/07/2009, -4/+224I know it's a filter feeder, but I'd still be terrified to run into one of those on a dive.
  • plundstedt, on 05/08/2009, -3/+161"Basking sharks, which can grow up to 33 feet long and weigh more than a Hummer H1..."

    That's how much they weigh eh? How many Libraries of Congress is that? School buses?
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -0/+136it's about .5 school buses (37,800 bananas if you use the metric system)
  • Frankttank, on 05/08/2009, -11/+105DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!
  • Izz1011, on 05/08/2009, -7/+92Come on Chinese... the delicacy soup you're driving this shark to extinction for doesn't even have a taste?
  • C0ntraRadical, on 05/08/2009, -0/+79If you get swallowed by a whale you should start a small fire with stomach debris to induce sneezing.

    I have seen this work.
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -2/+80Thanks for telling everyone, now the chinese can hunt them all down.
  • lnxfi, on 05/08/2009, -11/+81FTA- “No one has ever seen a baby basking shark, no one’s found a pregnant shark, knows when they reproduce or what their gestation period is,” said Skomal.


    Probably because anyone who has was instantly eaten like a tater-tot. That is one massive mouth.
  • Unreal411, on 05/07/2009, -6/+70bigmouth strikes again
  • KatherineVolk, on 05/08/2009, -5/+64LEAVE THA SHARK ALONE!!!!!!
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -3/+55Probably one of the most amazing experiences of my life was swimming with one of these graceful beasts of the coast of Australia, in a place called ningaloo reef.

    Pictures on the computer just don't do these magnificent creatures justice.
  • Lucas123, on 05/08/2009, -1/+52That's too bad. Every shark deserves some privacy.
  • ryrocker, on 05/08/2009, -2/+51
    "A DESK of cheesits? Where are you getting these units of measurement?"


  • tpmidd, on 05/08/2009, -2/+50"The findings have implications for conserving the sharks, whose fins are much-desired delicacies in Chinese cuisine." In unrelated news, China has dispatched a fleet of "conservation" vessels to the Caribbean.
  • jimfeet, on 05/08/2009, -1/+43Dugg for- “We don’t know the genders of the sharks we tagged because we tagged them from the boat. Next time we’ll jump into the water so we can pull down their fly.”
  • likwidfuzion, on 05/08/2009, -1/+36I'm on a boat.
  • brownsound00, on 05/08/2009, -0/+30Nothing at all. They add spices to it for the flavor. It's just the fact that it's endangered that rich people (usually involved with the triads) eat it. They initially made up something that it reduces chances of cancer, but once that was tested they found it was BS.
  • akaakc, on 05/08/2009, -1/+30If you give a shark too much privacy, he'll probably end up plotting on you and then you've got a BIG problem. We probably need to tap their phones, install security cameras in their caves, and it may get to the point that we need to build an underwater wall the length of the Atlantic coast.

    Why do they need privacy if they have nothing to hide?
  • Stiverton, on 05/08/2009, -0/+29I doubt they use a lot of suction, it's more them swimming forward that causes their filter feeding to work. I think it would close it's mouth or turn if it saw a person in the way. Whales on the other hand... I would ***** my wet suit. The larger whales probably wouldn't even notice.
  • hetharocks5, on 05/08/2009, -0/+26hehe, tater tot.
  • bundwallah, on 05/08/2009, -1/+26Hunted to extinction in 3...2.....1...
  • MikaStar, on 05/08/2009, -0/+25No one tell the Chinese.....
  • styleinmotion, on 05/07/2009, -1/+25that's such an awesome photo, imagine taking that
  • noahhoward, on 05/08/2009, -0/+23Oh Family Guy, when will you not apply to life's situations.
  • tj111, on 05/08/2009, -0/+22It's from family guy: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1152236/family_guy_j ...
  • Jabrams2, on 05/08/2009, -1/+20A Caribbean hideout?? And they say sharks and humans have nothing in common...
  • bigfatdummy, on 05/08/2009, -1/+20Dugg up for Smiths Reference.
  • Kuci06, on 05/08/2009, -1/+19Did you ***** a mermaid?
  • mickstephenson, on 05/08/2009, -0/+18Actually the concentration of mercury is high predatory tuna and sharks because they are at the top of a long food chain where the mercury gets ever more concentrated in each organism in the chain, basking sharks eat plankton a very short chain so wouldn't suffer from this effect.
  • INV3Ntv, on 05/08/2009, -0/+17I got my flippy-floppies
  • apec766, on 05/08/2009, -2/+19Aww, I was hoping sharks and tuna contained the planet Mercury.
  • ryrocker, on 05/08/2009, -2/+19om nom nom nom
  • Memnochxx, on 05/08/2009, -2/+18They're
  • maxer64, on 05/08/2009, -0/+16Steve Zissou would be proud.
  • kkm3, on 05/08/2009, -0/+16Anything is possiblllllle!
  • twiztidsinz, on 05/08/2009, -0/+15Daylight come and me wan' go home...
  • ryrocker, on 05/08/2009, -0/+15

    shark penis!
  • ryann, on 05/08/2009, -0/+14It was the biggest one I ever saw....so I killed it.
  • isunktheship, on 05/08/2009, -0/+14YOU'VE STEEL GOT BANANAS TO PEEL MON.
  • kate0spencer, on 05/08/2009, -0/+14exactly! just seeing it in the photo is scary..
    seems like it's saying "get out of the way! or else.."
  • tubaros, on 05/08/2009, -2/+15I wonder if he has Humans with fricking laser beams attached to their heads in this hideout....
  • inactive, on 05/08/2009, -1/+14More money was probably spent on producing the film "Evan Almighty" than the all of the funding for this research over 50 years combined. So STFU.
  • aaron.dunlap, on 05/08/2009, -0/+12land shark.... duh
  • clickclickw00t, on 05/08/2009, -0/+12I wonder if you got sucked inside, would you get spit out or what?
  • czhe, on 05/08/2009, -0/+12Um no they're not. In fact, they're distinctively different.
  • vinnyc, on 05/08/2009, -1/+12ningaloo stole my bike
  • noahhoward, on 05/08/2009, -0/+11God forbid a scientist have a sense of humour. I like my scientists to be soul-less robots.
  • fxdbi, on 05/08/2009, -0/+11Do you like fishsticks?
  • Beatmiser, on 05/08/2009, -0/+10I would have Dugg you because I love the Smiths, but the name is Jacques Cousteau.
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