333: Great White Shark
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April 23, 2026
Ellen jaws away about the great white shark. We discuss making our own planetary rings, performance-enhancing Speedos, how sharks sleep, the White Shark Café, IRL baby shark, and so much more. Works Cited:
- “Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline” - Josh Davis, Natural History Museum
- “SPEEDO FASTSKIN – A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST SWIMSUITS” - SwimSwam.com, November 2023
- “White Shark Bite Kinematics — Preliminary Exploration of a New Aspect” - R. Aidan Martin, ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research
- “An electrophysiological correlate of sleep in a shark” - John A. Lesku et al., Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology , July 2024
- “For five days in 1980, a great white shark named Sandy lived in Golden Gate Park” - Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, June 2024
- “The Great White Way” - Pete Thomas, Los Angeles Times , September 2006
- “White Shark Café: The mysterious meeting spot for great whites in the middle of the Pacific Ocean” – Sascha Pare, LiveScience, September 2024
- “First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white” - Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside, February 2024
- “Shark Management Laws” - NOAA Fisheries
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