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Article: Record-breaking shark tale: how a great white shark stunned scientists around the world.(VOCABULARY BUILDERS)
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- WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2008
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A great white shark cruised across the Indian Ocean in a record-breaking swim. The great white became the first shark known to have completed a round-trip journey between two continents.
"This is the first time that an individual fish has been found to go across an entire ocean and come back to the same spot" says Ramon Bonfil, one of the scientists who studied the shark. Scientists named the shark Nicole.
Nicole not only set a distance record but also took a bite out of the speed record. The great white clocked more than 12,400 miles on her trip from South Africa to Australia and back. She migrated, or moved between locations, faster than any other marine animal. ...
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