In Raining Stones one of the actresses visited at her house by a loan shark had no idea that he was going to force her to take off her wedding ring and give it to him as part payment.

" As time passed, Anning's confidence in her knowledge grew, and in 1839 she wrote to the Magazine of Natural History to question the claim made in an article, that a recently discovered fossil of the prehistoric shark Hybodus represented a new genus, as an error since she had discovered the existence of fossil sharks with both straight and hooked teeth many years ago.

A micro-spectrophotometry study of 17 species of shark found 10 had only rod photoreceptors and no cone cells in their retinas giving them good night vision while making them colorblind.

In 1984, shortly before its opening day, the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California, housed its first great white shark which had died after 10 days.

They had the rare success of getting the shark to feed in captivity before its release.

Media critics and cable news executives later cited the Levy case, as well as the concurrent sensationalist coverage of a string of shark attacks, as a reflection of the manner of news coverage in the United States before the September 11 attacks had taken priority.

In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 ( two years before Damien Hirst's ) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies.

In " Treehouse of Horror XIV ", it is revealed that Frink had a father who was killed by a shark, whom he brings back to life in the episode by piecing together his body parts.

At the other end is Geppetto, who had been living on a ship that was also in the shark.

For the third time since 2004, the aquarium had a young great white shark in the Outer Bay exhibit in 2007 / 2008.

Despite series-high ratings, the changes were critically panned and many felt that at that point the series had " jumped the shark ".

His first foray into this genre was Watson and the Shark, its subject based on an incident related to the artist by Brook Watson, who had been attacked by a shark while swimming in Havana harbour as a 14-year-old boy.

This was done after pilots saw a photograph of a P-40 of No. 112 Squadron RAF in North Africa, which in turn had adopted the shark face from German pilots of the Luftwaffe's ZG 76 heavy fighter wing, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters in Crete.

After the shark attack, Leiter returned in Diamonds Are Forever with a hook for his missing hand and a prosthetic leg ; as he had lost his gun hand, he was no longer with the CIA, but employed as a private detective by Pinkertons Detective Agency, although he was on the reserve of the CIA and was recalled for Thunderball and The Man with the Golden Gun.

The shark had been caught by a commissioned fisherman in Australia and had cost £ 6, 000.

" ROckWrok " had a punk-lyric chorus, with the words " Come on, let's tangle in the dark / fuck like a dog, bite like a shark ".

Anderson et al .. ( 1998 ) reported, in the Chagos Archipelago, grey reef shark numbers in 1996 had fallen to 14 % of 1970s levels.

Robbins et al .. ( 2006 ) found grey reef shark populations in Great Barrier Reef fishing zones had declined by 97 % compared to no-entry zones ( boats are not allowed ).

The 200 Series Shinkansen trains resemble the earlier 0 series trains in styling ( some later units had the pointed ' shark nose ' of the 100 series ), but are lighter and more powerful, since these two lines are mountain routes and have steeper gradients.

Brown said that Spielberg did not want to direct the sequel because he felt that he had done the " definitive shark movie ".

A brand new head was also sculpted by sculptor Chris Mueller which made use of an all new mouth mechanism, one which incorporated jowls to disguise the pinching of the cheeks that had proven to be a problem with the original " Bruce " shark.

The production company had to seek dredge and fill permits from the State of Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation to sink the revised platform that controlled the shark on the sea bottom.

Also included is footage of the shark attacking the coast guard pilot underwater after his helicopter had capsized.

This is the world's largest shark sanctuary, extending the worldwide ocean area in which sharks are protected from to.

Fossils from terrestrial dinosaurs also have been found in the Niobrara Chalk, suggesting that animals who died on shore must have been washed out to sea ( one specimen of a hadrosaur appears to have been scavenged by a shark ).

In 1946, author Gavin Maxwell bought the island and established a factory to process shark oil from basking sharks.

They range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark ( Etmopterus perryi ), a deep sea species of only in length, to the whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately.

Evidence for this etymology comes from the OED, which notes the name " shark " first came into use after Sir John Hawkins ' sailors exhibited one in London in 1569 and used the word " sharke " to refer to the large sharks of the Caribbean Sea.

The oldest generally accepted shark scales are from about 420 million years ago, in the Silurian period.

The oldest white shark teeth date from 60 to 65 million years ago, around the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

* Hexanchiformes: Examples from this group include the cow sharks and frilled shark, which somewhat resembles a marine snake.

Unwanted items may never get past the stomach, and instead the shark either vomits or turns its stomachs inside out and ejects unwanted items from its mouth.

Only five of the 108 authenticated unprovoked shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast during the 20th century involved kayakers.

Other operators draw the bait away from the cage, causing the shark to swim past the divers.

It is unclear how much of a concurrent increase in fishing for great white sharks has caused the decline of great white shark populations from the 1970s to the present.

Other research has proposed adhesive glue from mussels, solar cells made like leaves, fabric that emulates shark skin, harvesting water from fog like a beetle, and more.

In Australia, reef cod and rock cod ( a different variety from that used in the United Kingdom ), barramundi or flake ( a type of shark meat ) are commonly used.

Like other species in the shark family they must swim to keep from sinking, so their stay at a cleaning station is characterised by slow circuits.

* Bala shark ( Balantiocheilos melanopterus ), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish

A specialty of Trujillo is ceviche prepared from shark ( tollo or tojo ).

Pinocchio and Geppetto and the tuna manage to get out from inside the shark and Pinocchio heroically attempts to swim with Geppetto to shore, which turns out to be too far ; however, the tuna rescues them and brings them to shore.

Karl was not physically hurt by the shark, but he suffers a mental breakdown from the traumatic event.

Matahi gets up and decides to get money by getting a pearl from a tabu region of the lagoon, a perilous place guarded by a shark that has already taken the life of one diver.

Data from this second white shark was transmitted back to aquarium staff from a pop-off satellite tag after 90 days.

In September 2010 a sci-fi channel show Beast Legends did an episode of the shark god utilizing animals from the natural world ; in this case, the body type of a bull shark combined with the size of megalodon.