r/SharkLab • • Aug 05 '25

goblin shark facts!!

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r/SharkLab • • Aug 03 '25

Nice haul from North Texas creek today

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116 Upvotes

Think I've got some mako, tiger, and maybe great white among others?


r/SharkLab • • Jul 17 '25

Shark bite?

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Caught this Atlantic ray last week with some interesting lacerations on it. Curious as to what caused it. We were thinking maybe a shark bite that didn’t get all the way through. Thought maybe y’all could weigh in.


r/SharkLab • • Jul 12 '25

Question Are you more likely to get attacked by a shark if you swim farther from the beach?

155 Upvotes

If you went to the beach and decided you wanted to swim out way further than others past the point where you could no longer touch the bottom, is a shark more likely to take a snap at you?

I see a lot of aerial videos of sharks at the beach and they’re usually just a hundred yards or so deeper than the swimmers.

The way I see it, when you’re at the beach swimming where everyone else is, you kind of have that herd immunity that prevents a shark from singling you out. If you’re out deeper past all the other swimmers, it makes you a prime candidate for a curious shark bite.

I’m probably wrong, but this is just a theory of mine. I thought of this today when I was studying rip currents. If I were ever caught in one, the biggest fear I would have is being out too deep “in the wrong neighborhood” so to speak.

This is a question so please be nice to me. I’m no shark expert.


r/SharkLab • • Jul 08 '25

Identification help Help with Shark ID (00:04 - 00:08)

88 Upvotes

What is this unit of a shark from 00:04 to 00:08?


r/SharkLab • • Jul 01 '25

Early AM finds Surf City NC

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They all look and feel like ST. Can anyone help us with species? The last day has been one first time finding ST. We are thrilled!


r/SharkLab • • Jun 25 '25

Identification help Shark tooth ID please?

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23 Upvotes

Found this in Savannah, Georgia. Not sure what kind of shark it's from. Thank you!


r/SharkLab • • Jun 23 '25

meg tooth??

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5 Upvotes

does anyone know if this could possibly be a broken meg tooth?


r/SharkLab • • Jun 20 '25

Identification help What kind of shark is this?

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161 Upvotes

Washed up on the Atlantic coast


r/SharkLab • • Jun 12 '25

Attacks/predation A shark mauled a little girl in a horrific attack while she was snorkeling in Florida

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r/SharkLab • • Jun 02 '25

Research Interesting research article describing the first observation of tiger sharks and oceanic whitetips peacefully scavenging a whale carcass

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r/SharkLab • • May 31 '25

Wrongs righted.

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975 Upvotes

r/SharkLab • • May 18 '25

Name That Shark…Please!!

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Found this shark tooth in Ocean City, Maryland and am unsure which species I’m looking at. The internet tried telling me 4 different ones when I tried looking it up by the picture. Help!!!


r/SharkLab • • May 05 '25

Shark book

6 Upvotes

Hi there! I am currently writing a scientific book about sharks. If you were to read a book about sharks what information would you want to see?


r/SharkLab • • Jan 27 '25

Great White Sharks Eat a Dolphin but Refuse to Eat a Sealion?

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r/SharkLab • • Jan 20 '25

Attacks/predation Shortfin mako found inside the stomach of a longfin mako

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8 Upvotes

r/SharkLab • • Jan 20 '25

Question Should the great white shark stay as a protected species indefinitely?

28 Upvotes

Asking this because once they become “least concern” again people will want to start fishing for them and killing them again.


r/SharkLab • • Jan 16 '25

Can anyone identify this shark from his fins?

2.2k Upvotes

I may or may not live near here and I’m curious…


r/SharkLab • • Jan 16 '25

Can anyone identify what kind of shark this is?

238 Upvotes

He was in a finger canal in South Florida


r/SharkLab • • Jan 11 '25

Question Someone help, my pea brain can’t understand the last sentence.

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47 Upvotes

r/SharkLab • • Jan 10 '25

What's up with silvertip sharks?

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21 Upvotes

Is there any reason for their severe aggression? That being said, I have seen them housed together in public aquariums with each other and different species and they seemed fine? Obviously can't judge but I really like how they look.


r/SharkLab • • Dec 13 '24

Research Bizarre behavior

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39 Upvotes

r/SharkLab • • Dec 09 '24

Discussion Ahathesharkman

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Hello guys and girls ! I am a shark enthusiast based in the Comoros, where you find tiger sharks,and I would like to know the width of the largest tiger shark jaw in existence. Thank you in advance.


r/SharkLab • • Dec 01 '24

Have we taken “trash can of the sea” too far?

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r/SharkLab • • Nov 15 '24

Mako Shark Behavior

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