It’s “Shark Week” time on television, when slo-mo clips of massive, profoundly terrifyingly great whites are close-upped going airborne to crunch the midair life out of hapless seals and sea lions. The fury displayed by flying great whites – not to mention the splash landings – enhances a sense that they are the alpha-most of alphas, the apexiest of all apex ocean creatures and pretty much the bad-assiest of all bad-asses.
Well, in one of the most alpha-changing turnabouts modern oceans have ever seen, great whites are now being given a…
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