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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It s National Mushroom Month!
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Harvest season begins
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National Park Week begins
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Oh, the places you’ll go
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It’s Draw a Bird Day
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Hello, harbinger of spring
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‘You should see the one that got away!’
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Channel Country, Australia
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Honoring the fallen
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A sea of swirling stone
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A winter wonderland in Northeast China
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Dragon dance performed in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
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World Penguin Day
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The perfect canvas for an ancient text
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The dog days of summer
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Burrowing owls
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Serra de Tramuntana, Majorca, Spain
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Happy World Meteorological Day
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland
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Shark Fin Cove, California
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Tafilalet oasis in Morocco
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A red knot on the Shetland Islands, Scotland
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Diwali
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
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Dancers perform ‘Revelations’
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Celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Congratulations, 2019 Nobel Prize laureates!
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It s International Jazz Day
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We did not invent this, honest