Shark and Awe

Episode 5 - The Great White Shark, Part 1 - 09/19/2025


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In this multi-part special, learn all about the ocean's most famous shark: the Great White! In this week's episode, we talk habitats, baby sharks, mating events, and the biggest adult great white on record!

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SHOW RESOURCES:

  • FishBase: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/751
  • Endothermic sharks: https://www.sharks4kids.com/post/2019/01/31/endothermic-sharks
  • White Shark Ocean: https://tinyurl.com/8d47mvke
  • NOAA Fisheries: https://tinyurl.com/5yxf6w4a
  • National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/babies-great-white-sharks-camera-new-york
  • LiveScience: https://www.livescience.com/49874-sharks-mature-later-thought.html
  • Ovoviviparous sharks: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/sharpen-your-shark-facts
  • Save Our Seas: https://saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/species/white-shark
  • Adelphophagy: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/sharks/shark-pup2.htm
  • California Dept of Fish and Wildlife: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/White-Shark#542632341-how-old-do-white-sharks-get-and-how-often-do-they-reproduce
  • Shark Research Institute: https://www.sharks.org/blog/2020/9/14/white-shark-mating-new-zealand
  • The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/04/rolling-and-rolling-and-rolling-the-first-detailed-account-of-great-white-shark-sex
  • Abyss Scuba Diving: https://www.abyss.com.au/blog/sharks/great-white-sharks
  • All-white baby great white: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/first-ever-sighting-live-newborn-great-white
  • California State University: https://tinyurl.com/cmd43h26
  • Sub-adult definition: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.744202/full
  • Cape Cod Times: https://tinyurl.com/muarbekx
  • OCEARCH: https://www.ocearch.org/education/shark-facts/
  • NewsWeek: https://www.newsweek.com/deep-blue-biggest-great-white-shark-world-story-pictures-1709971
  • The Economic Times: https://tinyurl.com/9aet76au
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Shark and AweBy Hawkeye Fierce