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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What’s blooming in New Zealand?
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Norway s Kjeragbolten boulder
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World Laughter Day
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Sparkling ice diamonds on a black sandy beach
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World Numbat Day
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A day to celebrate the sun
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Valentines Day
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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World of WearableArt Awards
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Folegandros Island, Cyclades, Greece
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On the wings of the Wright brothers
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Happy New Years Eve!
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Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia
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The story of the poinsettia
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Agüero, Huesca province, Spain
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Ruins of a royal temple
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Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
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It s truffle season here in the Dordogne Valley
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Giants of the avian world
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A tower of light
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Mountain goats
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National Napping Day
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A midsummer twilight s dream
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National Blueberry Day
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Bardenas Reales Biosphere Reserve and Natural Park, Spain
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany
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Birds of a feather
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Maloja, Switzerland
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Tesla, the visionary
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Arbor Day