Steve Palumbi
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Extreme Life of the Sea
Death and Life of Monterey Bay
Microdocs.org
#oceanwildlife
Death and Life of Monterey Bay
Microdocs.org
#oceanwildlife
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!
With season 2 to follow!
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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!
With season 2 to follow!
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.
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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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July 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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In our substack book #BornPredators Kinney Austin has an evidence problem -- was Hennessey the #shark really where her satellite tag said she was?
July 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In our substack book #BornPredators Kinney Austin has an evidence problem -- was Hennessey the #shark really where her satellite tag said she was?
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?
July 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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?
On Toothsday July 8 we posted another Born Predators chapter on our Substack site
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
On Toothsday July 8 we posted another Born Predators chapter on our Substack site
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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July 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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
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"
“So, not a Bull shark,” the coroner offered
“No,” Kinney said. "Something else"
June 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"
“So, not a Bull shark,” the coroner offered
“No,” Kinney said. "Something else"
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.
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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.
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.
youtu.be/dfqWquD5eqc
youtu.be/dfqWquD5eqc
Cruel summer hurricanes and heatwaves July 4
YouTube video by Extreme Life of the Sea
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June 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
youtu.be/dfqWquD5eqc
youtu.be/dfqWquD5eqc
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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
#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
June 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#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
#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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June 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#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.
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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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June 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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?
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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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.
June 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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.
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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June 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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.
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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.
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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.
SEE MORE AT: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
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.
SEE MORE AT: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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.
SEE MORE AT: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
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.
SEE MORE AT: stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
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
THINGS WE KNOW NOW - HOW SHARKS GROWTH THEIR TEETH SHARP
June 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
THINGS WE KNOW NOW - HOW SHARKS GROWTH THEIR TEETH SHARP
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...
June 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...
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?
June 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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?
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...
Our white shark character Hennessey in Born Predators swims in sensation: sight, sound, smell and even the electric pulses from the nerves of her prey. But when she can not tell what a possible prey item is and those senses don’t tell her. She has one option left. She has to taste it.
June 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Our white shark character Hennessey in Born Predators swims in sensation: sight, sound, smell and even the electric pulses from the nerves of her prey. But when she can not tell what a possible prey item is and those senses don’t tell her. She has one option left. She has to taste it.