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Death on the ocean floor: a great white shark mystery
Encountering the carcass of one of the ocean’s top predators and how studying its remains can help researchers save the living
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Wildlife Wednesday: avian flu kills polar bear for the first time ever
Plus: beavers and AI team up to fight wildfire, swamp rodents invade Ontario, sharks in peril, and Great Bear hunting rights bought by conservation group
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Wildlife Wednesday: peregrine falcons use ‘false alarm’ attacks to tire out prey
Plus: 3,000 illegal shark fins seized by the DFO, Atlantic Canada’s seals under investigation, salmon use ‘cooling stations’ to de-stress, and 16-kilogram tortoise found wandering spinach patch
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Wildlife Wednesday: cage diving with great white sharks comes to Nova Scotia
Plus: Canada jay sibling rivalry, northern leopard frogs bounce back, waterfowl struggling in the prairies, and Pokémon Go meets wildlife in new mobile game
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The fright of a lifetime: Accidentally encountering a great white shark in Canada
Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark shares his experience coming face-to-face with one of the ocean’s top predators while scuba diving near Halifax, N.S.
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Wildlife Wednesday: the monumental task of taking a polar bear to the vet
Plus: a mother orca’s burden, hope for sharks and rays, the link between salmon and wildflowers, and financially tracking the illegal wildlife trade
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Wildlife Wednesday: how chaos theory can explain narwhals’ weird behaviour
Plus: size matters for female bighorn sheep, the hidden migration of North American dragonflies, helping trees move north and the great white who drew itself
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Wildlife Wednesday: blue shark sightings boom in the Bay of Fundy
Plus: a sticky new way to track polar bears, curious squirrel behaviour, Canada’s answer to the Galapagos and the algal experiment blasting off into space.
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Wildlife Wednesday: new technique produces much needed female wood bison calves at Toronto Zoo
Plus: “bees of the sea” are pollinating underwater plants, snow geese are bouncing back hard, Greenland sharks are appearing in unlikely waters and birds are proving smarter than ever
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Dead or alive: A dive into the landing ban on endangered shortfin mako sharks
Under Canadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental capture — but is it enough?
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Study finds reef sharks ‘functionally extinct’ from 20 per cent of the world’s reefs
Lead author Aaron MacNeil discusses what this means for coral ecosystems and what Canadians can do to help
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Opinion: It’s time for Canada to stand up for sharks
Why I’m sponsoring a bill to ban the importation of shark fins to Canada
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Late filmmaker’s final documentary sheds light on sharks in peril
Sharkwater Extinction, the final documentary from Canadian filmmaker and activist Rob Stewart, is now screening across Canada
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Caught on camera: Elusive Greenland sharks
Using cameras baited with squid, researchers were able to gather information about these ancient Arctic fish without taking any out of the water
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The great green shark hunt
Can British Columbia’s spiny dogfish make the grade as the world’s first “sustainable” shark fishery?
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Get to know Canada’s shark species
Meet some of the incredible toothy predators swimming off our shores
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Shark facts to kick off Shark Week
To kick off Shark Week, here are 10 facts about some of the sharks that swim in Canadian waters.
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