They"ve long been treated as threats, portrayed as villains, and brutally hunted for their edible fins, so we think it"s only fair that sharks get their own day. Shark Awareness Day is meant to highlight the importance of the most fearsome fish in nature, from little dwarf lantern sharks to great whites to these blacktip reef sharks cruising the Tahitian coast.
A different view of sharks
Today in History
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St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland
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Four Sisters, thousands of trees
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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Field of Light at Sensorio by Bruce Munro
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Málaga, Spain
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Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
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Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England
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Feeling crabby?
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Flocking together in the Antarctic
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Up, up, and away for Hot Air Balloon Day
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Fujian Tulou, China
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All Rhodes lead to the beach
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World Teachers Day
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In the path of the pronghorn
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Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
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Fight for your lefts
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Craters of the Moon centennial
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Dancing waters of Dubai
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New Year s Day
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Cherry blossoms at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon
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World Migratory Bird Day
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Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
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75 years of the United Nations
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Space-age style by the sea
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Rocks on the move
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International Sloth Day
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Celebrating Flag Day
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Spring equinox
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Summer Olympics begin in Paris
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