Sand Tiger Shark on a Wreck (IMAGE)

Duke University

Sand Tiger Shark on a Wreck

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Shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast are important habitats for sand tiger sharks, a fierce-looking but docile species whose population plummeted in the 1980s and '90s and is now listed as globally vulnerable by IUCN.

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John McCord, Coastal Studies Institute

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