Hunt stepped up for killer shark in Australia
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The hunt for the great white shark that killed a teenage surfer here this week was stepped up despite an appeal by his family not to kill the giant predator.
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MONTAUK, New York  - In this Long Island fishing hamlet, hundreds of adults drank beer and children marveled at the bloodied sharks caught in a fishing contest, including a heart from a gutted 180-pound (82-kg) thresher shark that several children poked with awe.
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A man who said a shark attacked him on Sydney's Bondi beach has been arrested for theft and may have made the story up, the Australian media said today
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AUSTRALIAN specialists were today beginning the grisly task of identifying the bodies of up to 1,000 people killed by Sunday&#39;s tsunami in the Thai resort area of Khao Lak.
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SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.
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TWO Great White sharks ripped a schoolboy surfer in two off a packed beach yesterday. Nick Peterson, 18, was being towed on his surfboard behind his grandmother&#39;s dinghy when a shark began attacking the boat.
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The scalloped hammerhead shark is being pushed towards the brink of extinction, say experts.
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A South African shark-spotting program to warn surfers and swimmers about the approach of great whites is to be expanded, environmentalists said Thursday, though they added the sharks have more to fear than humans.
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A savage crocodile attack on a group of campers in northern Australia has sparked renewed calls for the partial lifting of a three-decade hunting ban aimed at saving the animals from extinction.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Move over Rover, let Flipper take over. News from New Zealand suggests man&#39;s best friend is in fact the bottlenose dolphin. It emerged yesterday that four swimmers were saved from a great white shark by a
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Environmental groups call on Australia to classify the Coral Sea as a marine park to ward off illegal shark fishermen.
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An Australian teenager was killed by a pair of great white sharks yesterday in the country&#39;s second shark fatality in less than a week.
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A MAN killed by a shark on the Great Barrier Reef was spearfishing amid a shark feeding frenzy, a crew sent to rescue him said today.
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Authorities said Friday they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near a popular south Australian beach as his friends reportedly tried to save him by beating the animal with oars.
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A pair of sharks killed a teenage water-skier at a popular Adelaide beach as horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in less than a week.
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RESTORING muscle to the national men&#39;s team will be high on the agenda of Australia&#39;s new head swimming coach, Alan Thompson.