Tag: SHARKS

We hate to say it, but in the far-off future, we'll probably have managed to extinguish all non-human life on Earth. Furthermore, what if our descendants have nothing but video games to inform their ideas of what animals used to be? They'll think cats were snarky pests that inhabited embarrassingly ugly, three-dimensional landscapes. Or that hedgehogs were sneaker-clad hooligans with a penchant ...

Your faithful writer, bolstered by assurance in the strides we're making with shark-detecting technologies, was planning another trip to the beach this weekend. But it suddenly dawned on him that this August 1st will see the 2010 premiere of Shark Week! For shark-phobic rubbernecks, Shark Week is the ultimate car crash, keeping us glued to the television for tales (and tails) of torment and ...

Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' saw its 35th anniversary last month, and your writer reignited an irrational, but very real, childhood galeophobia by re-watching the entire toothy franchise just before a July 4th trip to the beach. It didn't help matters that the original Jaws (yes, we know, fictional) attacks occurred around Independence Day on Amity Island, and that the real-life Coast Guard issued ...