white shark
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The 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act has allowed the gray seal population on Cape Cod to thrive, luring white sharks to the waters where the seals live. — Annaliese Griffin, Quartzy, "Are great white sharks messing with us?," 1 Sep. 2019 Scientists in Southern California have detected white sharks with eDNA. — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, The Mercury News, "Monterey Bay: Following the DNA trail in the Pacific Ocean," 11 Aug. 2019 Last month, a white shark sighting prompted authorities to evacuate Newcomb Hollow Beach. — CBS News, "Shark spotted off the coast of Massachusetts," 12 Aug. 2019 In the past five years, around 300 white sharks have been identified by researchers along the coast of Cape Cod. — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "Sun, sand, and sharks: Cape beachgoers are wary about jumping into the water," 1 Aug. 2019 At least one orca has been observed killing and eating an adult white shark at the Farallon Islands, back in 1997. — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, "Orcas May Turn Great White Sharks into Scaredy Cats," 8 July 2019 An engineer and a marine biologist face a mother white shark at a Florida sea park. — Los Angeles Times, "Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019," 11 Aug. 2019 Newcomb Hollow yesterday after swimmers were removed from the water due to a white shark spotted. — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, "More than 150 great white shark sightings logged off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, since June," 2 Aug. 2019 The white shark has been blamed for 80 fatal unprovoked attacks, according to the database. — Scottie Andrew And Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, "A great white shark jumped in front of a boat near Cape Cod, surprising those on board," 21 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'white shark.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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