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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Mountain mists over Bavaria
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Baltic Sea, Estonia
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National Park Service Founders Day
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Cloughoughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights, Michigan
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It s Independence Day
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Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Desert bighorn sheep in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
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A gorge-ous mill in the Causses
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Fashion models of the avian world
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Take a break! It s Labor Day!
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The natural ice wall of Misotsuchi, Chichibu, Japan
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Barn owl, England
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Shakespeare Day
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Take the Stairs Day
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Spotted eagle rays in the Galápagos Islands
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Splashes of color for Watercolor Month
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It s Independence Day in Mexico
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‘Fringe’ takes center stage as Edinburgh celebrates the arts
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Watson Lake in Granite Dells, Arizona
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It’s oh so quiet
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Here we mark the price of freedom
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Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy
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The story of the poinsettia
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Haghartsin Monastery, Armenia
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International Day of Mangrove Conservation
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Pollinators: not to be sneezed at
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The Badlands celebrates a milestone
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