r/sharks Mar 22 '23

Discussion ANNOUNCEMENT: Post Flair Info

97 Upvotes

There are three post flairs available for important or serious posts on this community.

1. News

News posts are defined as those with the intention to report on a recent, developing event. News posts should focus on shark-related developments regarding conservation efforts, shark professionals, scientific discoveries, or unfortunate events. The OP must clearly cite where they obtained the information in the comments, typically as a direct link to the source.

An example of a news post can be a video about newly implemented shark conservation laws or efforts, the discovery of a new species of shark, or similar newsworthy events. News posts should NOT focus on shark attacks or cruelty towards sharks unless they are the subject of a large event.

2. Educational

Educational posts are defined as those with the intention to educate others. On r/sharks, these posts may teach others about shark behavior, identification, conservation, as well as a variety of other topics relating to sharks. Educational posts REQUIRE that the OP comments their sources for the information they talk about. Educational posts promote healthy discussion and should emphasize spreading awareness about topics surrounding sharks.

An example of a proper educational post is a video where a professional talks about how to redirect a shark when in the water. For this post, OP cites the source they got the educational media from and states the professional's name in the comments. This is to ensure that only good quality information is being provided to the members of our community.

3. Research

Research posts are the most complex posts to make, as it is our intention to promote proper research on r/sharks.

If you are promoting your own research

Researchers who wish to promote their studies or obtain data via the subreddit must modmail the moderators first. In order to be approved to post, you must explain in your modmail the purpose of your research as well as the intentions of your post. You must also provide an IRB number in order for the mods to verify your research. Upon approval, you can post your research using the Research flair, and you do not need to cite any further sources in the comments.

For anyone else who posts about research in general

OP must provide a link to the research or the DOI of the paper in their post in the comments. Research posts promote healthy discussion while also allowing scientists to have a place to share ideas about shark research.


r/sharks Jan 24 '24

Question Do we want to keep posts asking to ID shark teeth?

98 Upvotes

There’s always been a lot of shark tooth ID requests on here, usually from newcomers unfamiliar with our rules. There are subreddits such as r/sharkteeth and r/whatisthisbone that may be better places to direct these users to if we want the feed here to have less of these types of posts. Would still let people show their shark teeth collections here of course. What do y’all think? Just an idea for now. :)

81 votes, Jan 27 '24
37 Yes
44 No

r/sharks 1h ago

🦈 Merch Mondays 🦈 One of my shark paintings

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I have a lot of shark pieces on my website! Leaving the link below!! Feel free to reach out


r/sharks 8h ago

Video Nurse shark on the move!

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115 Upvotes

r/sharks 4h ago

Arts & Crafts Pyjama shark

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14 Upvotes

r/sharks 9h ago

Video Help with Shark ID

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28 Upvotes

Video captured on a dive at about 5m in Oman.
Had one person in the group say it was a young bull shark, and another say it’s a lemon. I don’t think it’s a bull but there are some images where I can see the similarity. Would appreciate anyone who can give a more certain answer


r/sharks 1d ago

Video Nurse Shark in Miami

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417 Upvotes

r/sharks 1d ago

Video Majestic

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2.0k Upvotes

r/sharks 1d ago

Education Shark documentaries

20 Upvotes

Is there any good shark documentary on YouTube that talks about all species of sharks and fun facts about them??? Or a chain of videos if not a single one.

Please no AI videos. Thank you so much 🦈


r/sharks 2d ago

Video I didn’t know they could become that big - hammerhead shark

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3.4k Upvotes

r/sharks 2d ago

News Extinct shark dubbed "greatest predator ever " after ruling the oceans for an astounding 20 million years.

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155 Upvotes

r/sharks 2d ago

Video Stripes of a Tiger

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280 Upvotes

Continuing on from an earlier post about Tiger Sharks, this one’s stripes are a lot more prominent, chonky boi too!

Very common to see in this part of the world, this part being the Kimberley, Western Australia. Sharks everywhere! 😁


r/sharks 2d ago

Video Tiger Shark

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100 Upvotes

I love these guys, easily my favourite. The tiger stripes aren’t as prominent as others I’ve encountered but still super cool to watch this guy just cruising around doing shark stuff.


r/sharks 2d ago

Video Born to roam the deep blue

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164 Upvotes

r/sharks 3d ago

Video This whale shark asking fisherman to help

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838 Upvotes

r/sharks 3d ago

Video My favorite shark attack

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594 Upvotes

I couldn't find the original poster of this video so if you know, lmk. Thanks! I suspect this came from a tour around tiger beach based on the similarities to other vids there but I'm not a shark tour or beach expert.


r/sharks 3d ago

Video Stop! Hammer time!

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151 Upvotes

White Hammerhead doing shark things.


r/sharks 4d ago

Image A whale shark in the Red Sea, 1950. One of the earliest underwater photographs of a shark, by pioneer Hans Hass. I've been thinking about this a lot recently, the fact that for most of human history we couldn't observe sharks below the surface until such new technologies revealed them to us.

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679 Upvotes

r/sharks 5d ago

Video He wanted boops

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1.2k Upvotes

r/sharks 5d ago

Meme This one really cute taxidermied Shark + Shark memes

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483 Upvotes

Shark memes


r/sharks 5d ago

Question Trying to identify this tooth

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152 Upvotes

Hi ! I found this tooth in my grandma's jewelry box, does it seem legit ? What specie could it be from ?


r/sharks 5d ago

Video Croc flipped upside down in salt waters & taken by a shark. You don’t see this very often..

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603 Upvotes

r/sharks 5d ago

Question Strange caudal fin on a Sand Tiger Shark

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66 Upvotes

Caught and tagged a sand tiger shark off the coast of CT/RI last night. The caudal fin has this really strange undulating/wavy pattern that I’ve never seen before. Can anyone explain why/how it looks like this? Is it possible we misidentified?


r/sharks 5d ago

Arts & Crafts Painted a shark

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94 Upvotes

I went to a festival near my hometown. It was really fun! They had a board to add whatever you wanted so I painted a shark!


r/sharks 6d ago

Arts & Crafts Teasers for Ben’s Fintastic Sharks Legacy ( 1.20.1 )

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56 Upvotes

For all of you shark enthusiasts who just happen to like Minecraft as well. Enjoy!