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Huge Great White Shark Dubbed ‘Queen of the Ocean’ Is Over 50 Years Old and Covered in Scars – Newsweek
The massive female shark, named Nukumi, weighed more than 3,500 pounds and was more than 17-foot long, experts from research organization OCEARCH recorded.
A 17-foot long female great white shark was caught and tagged by a scientific research expedition this week in waters off Canada.
The massive fish, weighing more than 3,500 pounds, was the sixth white shark sampled during a four week-long mission in the Northwest Atlantic conducted by OCEARCH, which is a non-profit research organization focused on the feared ocean predators.
Scientists named the shark “Nukumi”—pronounced noo-goo-mee—after a grandmother figure with cultural relevance to the Mi’…
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