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clock-iconPUBLISHEDAugust 27, 2015

Slippery Seal Successfully Avoids Becoming Great White's Supper

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Hungry hunter. Great white shark. Mogens Trolle/Shutterstock

Footage of a seal narrowly escaping from a hungry great white shark was posted online recently by a member of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

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Dr. Greg Skomal was working with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in Cape Cod tagging sharks when he captured the footage of a seal leaping out of the water in an attempt to avoid the jaws of a great white.

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[H/T: The Telegraph]
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDAugust 27, 2015

Written by Danielle Andrew

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