333: Great White Shark

Ellen jaws away about the great white shark. We discuss making our own planetary rings, performance-enhancing Speedos, how sharks sleep, the White Shark Café, IRL baby shark, and so much more.

Works Cited:

• “Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline (nhm.ac.uk/discover/shark-evolution-a-450-milli…)” - Josh Davis, Natural History Museum

• “SPEEDO FASTSKIN – A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST SWIMSUITS (swimswam.com/speedo-fastskin-a-history-of-the-…)” - SwimSwam.com (swimswam.com), November 2023

• “White Shark Bite Kinematics — Preliminary Exploration of a New Aspect (elasmo-research.org/education/white_shark/bite…)” - R. Aidan Martin, ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research

• “An electrophysiological correlate of sleep in a shark (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11579818)” - John A. Lesku et al., Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, July 2024

• “For five days in 1980, a great white shark named Sandy lived in Golden Gate Park (sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/five-days-1980…)” - Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, June 2024

• “The Great White Way (latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-29-sp-out…)” - Pete Thomas, Los Angeles Times, September 2006

• “White Shark Café: The mysterious meeting spot for great whites in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/whi…)” – Sascha Pare, LiveScience, September 2024

• “First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white” (universityofcalifornia.edu/news/first-ever-sig…) - Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside, February 2024

• “Shark Management Laws (fisheries.noaa.gov/national/laws-policies/shar…)” - NOAA Fisheries

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