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Just As Afraid Of You Marine biologists want you to know it’s ok to go into the water, and it’s less risky than taking a selfie, unless you are one of these morsels. “Sharks should not stop you from enjoying the ocean. Most of the ones you’ll see are more scared of you than you should be of them. ” said Marine biologist Dr. Mike Heithaus. Yeah, but doc, getting eaten is a really BAD way to cross the Styx. Frankly, it’s offensive. Humans clawed our way to the top of the food chain. I...

Image via Ed Vebell / Getty Images Every summer on the Discovery Channel, “Shark Week” inundates its eager audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping. Debuting in 1988, the television event was an instant hit. Its financial success wildly exceeded the expectations of its creators, who had been inspired by the profitability of the 1975 blockbuster film “Jaws,” the first movie to earn US$100 million at the box office. Thirty...

Check It Out: Travel back in time with week’s titles By Jan Johnston Share: Jan Johnston is the Collection Development Coordinator for Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. Email her at readingforfun@fvrl.org. Photo This week’s column has a decidedly prehistoric theme but not because I’m feeling old (ha-ha). Did you know that June 15 is National Megalodon Day? What is a megalodon? It was a shark, a really, really big shark that cruised the Earth’s oceans several million...

New exhibits at the Atlantic White Shark Center in Chatham include how media and "Jaws" affect public perceptions, and stoke fear, about sharks.

Hicimos una selección con las mejores películas de terror disponibles en Netflix, para que organices una maratón de miedo.

Lisey’s Story is one of King’s best novels, but that doesn’t mean he knows how to make it into a good TV show.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 8, 2021 On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman officially declared V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. By (0) People jam Piccadilly Circus during celebration of V-E Day on May 8, 1945, in London. UPI File Photo On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi River. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo Today is Saturday, May 8, the 128th day of 2021 with 237 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupit...

Nothing is original. Everything borrows from somewhere. Deep Rising is no exception, but the old pans that today comprise the bulk of the film’s 28% Rotten Tomatoes score missed what a boisterous, bloody good time it is, monsters at sea mixed with Sommers’ love for adventure and snappy humor. “Hilarious” is hardly the first word one might reach for to describe a movie where people get sucked up like spaghetti by colossal oceanic worms that “drink” their prey rather...

There are 34 species of sharks that inhabit Texas coastal waters. This is the conclusion of Dr. Donald Wohlschlag, who has been keeping count as he leafs through a zoological key to local marine life. Through his window I can see past the Port Aransas dunes out to the Gulf—a gray Gulf today, all its denizens securely tucked in. Wohlschlag is an ichthyologist and ecologist here at the University of Texas’ Institute of Marine Science, an idyllic laboratory/learning complex peopled mostly by t...

Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws was published in 1974. In 1975 it was turned into a film. For years various cultural critics, most famously the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, have deconstructed Jaws to mean more than just a story about a fictional tourist spot, Amity Island, being tormented by a shark. Peter Biskind in his 1999 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls writes that, since the novel and its film adaptation arrived during a particularly severe economic and political crisis in the US,...