Our Shark Awareness Day celebrity is a blue shark swimming in the cold waters off Cork, Ireland. The inspiration for its name comes from the blue shark’s back color, not its mood. It’s currently listed as ‘near threatened’—a status all too common for sharks today. Why celebrate an apex predator that most humans associate with horror movies? Because without sharks acting as population control on other marine life, the world’s oceans would be a very different place. Blue sharks eat a lot of squid and fish, and like land predators, help to keep their prey from overpopulation. Mother Nature keeps us in a delicate balance, so it’s important that we don’t accidentally remove a vital member of that system… even if that creature seems scary to most of us.
Does this shark have an Irish accent?
Today in History
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International Women s Day
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Walk the line
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Pups of the prairie
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From garden to table?
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Stepping into autumn
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Earth at Perihelion
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The perfect canvas for an ancient text
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To Roswell, and beyond!
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Earth seen from the International Space Station
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What a twist
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Let’s go foraging
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Irohazaka road
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Traveling warblers
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Big dreams require a big sleigh
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Autumn’s swan song
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Space-age style by the sea
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Does this shark have an Irish accent?
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Up, up, and away for Hot Air Balloon Day
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Go with the rainbow flow
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The Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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A walk among the giants
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Hanging out on a limb
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So, how long till springtime?
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Veterans Day
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National Mushroom Month
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Celebrate Mandela Day
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Hues of Hokkaido
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Sedona, Arizona