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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · 23d

See the volume 1 season 1 of our book about sharks and people Born Predators on stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

With season 2 to follow!

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s #sharkweek and an estimated 2 million sharks will drown this week. Shark researcher Kinney Austin saves one shark in our book Born Predators. See how she does it on substack Born Predators.

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 22

It’s Toothsday of shark week, and our new chapter of Born Predators has Kinney finally in the water with sharks. Is she terrified? No, she’s trying to save a shark from drowning. How do sharks drown and how does Kinney save it? Read it on Substack.

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 15

In our substack book #BornPredators Kinney Austin has an evidence problem -- was Hennessey the #shark really where her satellite tag said she was?

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 13

In Chapter 7 of our Substack serial novel Born Predators, researcher Kinney Austin shows Hennessey the shark was not really in Hampton Bay the night of the shark attack. Her friend Will asks the obvious question…if someone altered Hennessey's online track....why?

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 11

On Toothsday July 8 we posted another Born Predators chapter on our Substack site

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 2

Substack book series Born Predators Chapter 6: Are the beaches safe? That ‘s one of the questions anyone asks after a shark encounter. Our shark researcher Kinney walks into a maelstrom – a press conference about whether white shark Hennessey is a danger

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why is it the hottest day of the year across Europe? A #heatwave is not a surprise. Climate Change is Real! see our version of Cruel Summer Climate Change....also at youtu.be/acSOHZvgSM8

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 29

Shark teeth tell us a lot In our substack book Born Predators, Kinney looks closely at wounds “A Bull shark has cutting teeth in the upper jaw for slicing and stiletto points in the lower for grasping. I don’t see that.”
“So, not a Bull shark,” the coroner offered
“No,” Kinney said. "Something else"

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Best wishes going out to folks hit by the first cruel summer heat wave of 2025. The fundamental message is that climate change is real.Hunker down and stay safe.

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's a Cruel Summer...again. 104 in Boston on my way to the airport to go home. And this is the middle of the heatwave. So here is the middle of Cruel Summer of Climate Change.
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Cruel summer hurricanes and heatwaves July 4

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 24

In our book Born Predators Miss Jilly says “Hon, if there’s a dead guy with shark bites, then it’s the shark that did it.” But you can learn a lot more about sharks from their bites. In our post today, researcher Kinney Austin builds a shark from its bites
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Born Predators

A book about sharks and people by Anthony Palumbi and Stephen Palumbi

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Another cruel summer is starting to hit the US - a heatwave across the country. To paraphrase 'Cruel Summer': Summer is the worst but it should be the best! The most important thing to realize is that Climate Change is real...worst thing you ever heard. See the whole video youtu.be/acSOHZvgSM8

Cruel summer of hurricanes and heatwaves is real

YouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 20

#jaws50th 50 years after Jaws we know a lot more about sharks. Big white sharks are usually female. They get pregnant and give birth to young in the summer looking for a warm shallow cove Was that the Jaws shark? In our book Born Predators Hennessey the shark is doing just that but gets into trouble

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Jaws50 Today we know a lot more about sharks. Can they be wildlife not monsters? In our new novel Born Predators the shark biologist sets out to prove the shark Hennessey didn’t attack anyone – but it turns out that people are more complex than sharks.
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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Suppose you were the shark? TODAY! The 50th anniversary of JAWS, which defined the movie thriller by having a monster in the water. If you were the shark and had to live with that label for 50 years, how would you tell the story differently?
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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 19

June 19: Sharks and Juneteenth. The horrors and inhumanity of slavery included fear of sharks. “…the shark functioned as an integral part of a system of terror utilized by the slave ship captain.” From: Rediker, Marucs. (2008). Atlantic Studies, 5(2), 285–297.

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 19

2 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS. Shark teeth do not lie. Prof.James Estes told me a story of sea otters-where the cause of death was impossible to tell. Until they found grooves on the otter bones that matched serrations only in white shark teeth
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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thanks!!!! A new way to learn!

Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 17

3 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS How do sharks use their teeth. How are they different between species? The shark researcher in Born Predators, Kinney Austin, shows us the differences, & what teeth tell us. And she does it from the coroner’s office.
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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 16

5 DAYS TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAWS: THINGS WE KNOW NOW:
Sharks continuously grow their teeth—a new set every 7–10 days—and discard the old ones like dull razors. Over the course of a life time sharks can lose 10,000’s of teeth.

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How does a shark get its teeth?

How a shark gets her teeth: From the Extreme Life of the Sea, A. Palumbi and S. Palumbi, Princeton Press

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 15

COUNTDOWN TO 50TH ANNIVERSAY OF JAWS THE MOVIE - 5 DAY: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

THINGS WE KNOW NOW - HOW SHARKS GROWTH THEIR TEETH SHARP

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 14

The invention of sharp, replaceable teeth gave sharks their biological brand in the new world of predators that evolved in the dawn sea. Innovations are key to the success of new groups—in this case the first invention of teeth for a global ocean predator. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 12

Why did they call the movie #Jaws when it was really the teeth that mattered? Let's spend a few moment learning about shark teeth in the next few posts....how do sharks make them so sharp? How are they so strong? How do they make so many all their lives?

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Steve Palumbi @spalumbi.bsky.social · Jun 12

8 DAYS TO THE JAWS 50TH ANNIVERSARY What did the marine biologist in JAWS really know about the sensory, migration or social systems of white sharks? In Born Predators, Kinney Austin knows a lot about these and they cause her to doubt the shark attack
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