Be excited about the great white shark in the western Mediterranean Sea

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Be excited by the find on Thursday of a 16-foot great white shark about five miles off Mallorca’s southern coast.

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For a start, it has been a long time since a great white was found in this area of the Mediterranean Sea. My marine biologist brother, Andy Rogan explained that white shark “population levels have crashed over the past few decades, so if this sighting represents this species beginning to re-colonize its former territory it is very exciting.”

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