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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨Big News🚨 I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order now! 🦈 Published by UniPress Books & @princetonupress.bsky.social & featuring incredible art by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social, you can pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Ot... 🦈 (1/4)

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lornepw.bsky.social @lornepw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The BBC spoke to several content creators who all denied being motivated by social media views, clicks or revenue, and insisted they were supporting conservation or attempting to change public perceptions of sharks. Shark expert Dr Jack Cooper describes those claims as "ludicrous".

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The influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot

Tayane Dalazen was on a shark-diving trip in Brazil when she was attacked.

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Johann Mourier @sharkmourier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our new Perspective examines gender representation across 12,000+ publications in shark & ray science Paper: doi.org/10.3389/fris... Women’s participation is growing, but progression into senior authorship remains uneven. We need diverse scientific talent for better conservation. WE CAN DO BETTER!

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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

God i despise this utter twat. #climatechangeuk

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Look at that: 2 #megalodon papers in 2 days! 🦈🚨 This paper re-assesses a hypothesis that Bergmann's rule affected Meg size; & provides multiple lines of statistical evidence to support widespread nursery use instead 🦈 Many congrats to the authors: doi.org/10.1002/spp2... 🦈

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No evidence for Bergmann's rule in Otodus megalodon

It has been proposed that Otodus megalodon exhibits a Bergmann-like size pattern, with individuals growing larger in cooler waters, an interpretation used to challenge the existence of fossil nursery...

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My latest podcast appearance 🚨 Appearing on the award-winning PhD lounge, I chat about my career, megalodon, my advice for those seeking a PhD, and what sharks I'd have on my #worldcup team! ⚽️🦈 Thanks Luis for having me! Give it a listen here: www.phdlounge.co.uk/podcast/epis... 🦈

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Podcast | PhD Lounge

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New #megalodon paper! A set of meg vertebrae from Denmark described in the 1980s was thought lost. Now, Shimada et al. have rediscovered it, confirming its origin from a huge meg that may have eaten a basking shark as its last meal! Big congrats to the authors! doi.org/10.26879/1674 🦈

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Otodus megalodon vertebrae from Denmark

Rediscovery of the associated gigantic vertebrae of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, from the Upper Miocene Gram Formation in Denmark, and comments on its paleobiological significance an...

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🚨New website blog 🚨 Like many who study or are enthusiastic about sharks, I was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Gordon Hubbell a couple of weeks ago. This piece documents his academic works & shares my own memories of meeting him Give it a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/trib... 🦈

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A tribute to Dr Gordon Hubbell and his academic works — Dr. Jack A. Cooper

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Gordon Hubbell on June 14 th 2026. Like many in the field of shark palaeobiology, both academic and enthusiast, I greatly admired Gordon’s wonderful collec...

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

No, Colossal's resurrected nothing. They made designer dogs to look like Game of Thrones animal actors. And Colossal co-founder George Church? Friend of Epstein who kept the predator's genetic samples in his Harvard Medical School lab, which were pushed as priority for sequencing. Do. Not. Trust.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church

Exclusive: Harvard geneticist George Church knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has previously said, before accepting new donations from the sex offender.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Eric Boll @eric-boll.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A huge thank you to @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social for writing an editorial about my recent publication in @historicalbiology.bsky.social! It feels fantastic to know that others recognize the value of my work! Check out the editorial by clicking this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A picture of Eric Boll posed in the jaw of a T. rex with a copy of the Jurassic Park novel also in the jaws.

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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This was so predictable. What a nasty, awful, indecent man with no redeemable qualities.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🚨New Website blog 🚨 My first since that mega-essay on Shark Whisperer. But we're not talking about awful pseudo-scientific documentaries this time. Instead, here's a rather niche new debate in the world of #megalodon science. www.drjackacooper.com/writing/just... 🦈 (1/5)

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Just how far north was megalodon’s range? — Dr. Jack A. Cooper

Anybody who has ever worked on megalodon knows that it lived in oceans virtually all over the world. Yet even a cosmopolitan distribution has limits. A recent study describing the first megalodon teet...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Elon Musk was itching to go to Epstein’s parties, and excited about all the ‘girls’ that would be there, *five years* after Epstein pleaded guilty to *procuring a child for prostitution*. What on earth did he think went on at these parties?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Every other summer we run a fish biomechanics course at Friday Harbor Labs. It is an awesome opportunity to learn the tools of biovisualization while experiencing the rich fish diversity of the Salish Sea. Come join us! 🧪

A flyer for a fish biomechanics course at the Friday Harbor Labs this summer.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New #megalodon paper by Herraiz et al! Using a huge dataset of meg teeth from Spain & Portugal, this work reaffirms support for a previously identified Spanish nursery area, rejecting a hypothesis of Mediterranean-wide insular dwarfism. Many congrats to the authors! 🦈 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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The Iberian fossil record of †Otodus megalodon rejects Mediterranean dwarfism and supports nursery use

Abstract. †Otodus megalodon, the largest known macropredatory shark, was globally distributed from the Miocene to Pliocene, yet most ecological and palaeob

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Very, very cool work by @kristinakocakova.bsky.social et al just published! If you’ve ever wondered about how sharks & rays have diversified over millions of years, when exactly they’ve experienced extinctions & if age plays a role in extinction risk: then this is the shark paper for you! 🦈🦈🦈

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Had a fantastic experience last week at #2025SVP! Terrific talks & posters, enthralling conversations with peers; including some I’ve never met or haven’t seen in years. And of course, a great chance to spend time with the old lab team promoting our collective shark research! 🦈

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨New Website blog 🚨 🧵 Did you watch Shark Whisperer on Netflix? I did & it was pseudoscientific rubbish. In this blog, I do a deep dive into the documentary; its subject, Ocean Ramsey; & the harmful effects of “shark influencers” on shark conservation (1/9) www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It's very interesting how Prince Andrew has gone to such great lengths when it comes to doing everything a guilty person would do, in order to prove his innocence.

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I wish they had used this beautiful quote he offered in the story as the headline instead: “She was scared also. It was not her fault.”

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‘She Could Have Killed Me’: Scientist Survives Shark Bite to His Head

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Mark Young @drmarkyoung.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@historicalbiology.bsky.social now has online Collections. One where I highlight papers that are thought-provoking or advance a field. The other is edited by our Science Communication Editor (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social) - which brings together his SciComm series. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ghb...

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Historical Biology article collections

Browse article collections from Historical Biology

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Fancy a late-night museum event surrounded by Cenozoic giants? Well on September 20th, you can do that in Birmingham. And you'll even get to talk to yours truly about giant sharks 🦈 Looking forward to taking part and hope to see some of you there: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/giant...

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GIANTS Late | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums

Step into the museum after dark for an unforgettable evening at the GIANTS exhibition — where science, stories, and supersized creatures come to life.Enjo

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You can officially call me Dr of Sharks now! 🦈 Delighted to have graduated from my PhD yesterday; and to get to celebrate with my family & girlfriend & my brilliant supervisors Catalina & John. The support has been immense & I've made some great pals in Swansea over the 4 years 🦈

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

One of the most common plot summaries of Shark Week “documentaries” is -Person has a question about Shark behavior. -Person does not ask scientists that question, they’d know the answer -Person goes diving with sharks, which would not answer the question -Question is never addressed again

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I've been called "Shark Week's biggest critic," and in that capacity a question I get asked a lot is "that show is obviously pseudoscientific nonsense, why would that real scientist agree to participate? Here's my answer to that question www.southernfriedscience.com/why-would-a-... 🧪🦑🌎🦈🐟 #SciComm

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Why would a serious scientist agree to participate in a nonsense Shark Week show?

Tons of Shark Week shows are full of obvious pseudoscientific nonsense, and yet feature real scientists. Why would these people agree to do that? In my capacity as “Shark Week’s Biggese…

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy Shark Awareness Day! I want people to be aware of 5 things: 1 Sharks are awesome 2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety 3 Sharks are ecologically important 4 Sharks are highly threatened 5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Delighted to share that I'm now represented by Past Preservers for all future TV expert appearances! Can't wait to get started when next documentary job appears!🦈 You can check out my profile with them here: pastpreservers.com/portfolio/dr... Watch my showreel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGrL...

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Dr Jack Cooper, Palaeobiologist & Shark Expert « Welcome to Past Preservers

Past Preservers is a Creative Media Hub

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

New #ScienceCommunication website blog from me. This time, a recent paper details a huge migration from a great white shark named Alisha from South Africa to Indonesia! Big thanks to Madison Stewart for being part of this. Read all about Alisha's story here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/the-... 🦈

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The story of Alisha: how a recovered tag revealed one great white shark’s epic voyage — Dr. Jack A. Cooper

In 2024, a fisher in Indonesia contacted shark experts to discuss a recovered shark tag. This set in motion a chain of events that produced three startling findings: (1) that the tag had been deployed...

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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

📣Editor spotlight Dr Jack Cooper (@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social‬) is the science communication editor at Historical Biology. A palaeobiologist with a PhD from Swansea University; his research focuses on the ecological diversity of both fossil & living sharks 🦈

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Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Cutting medical research on trans people is horrific. Cutting grants that contain the common-in-science prefix trans because you wrongly think they’re about trans people is horrific and stupid.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Finally wrote that blog on this new #megalodon paper! 🦈 Hop on to my website to read me writing about this paper & what it indicates about megalodon biology. Many thanks to Phil Sternes & Kenshu Shimada for discussing their work with me 🦈 Read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega...

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Megalodon may have been looked like a big lemon shark — Dr. Jack A. Cooper

Otodus megalodon, the biggest shark in Earth’s history, may have just gotten a new makeover. Traditionally, size and body reconstructions have relied heavily on the great white shark due to it being c...

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New bit of #ScienceCommunication from me. I get to write for children here with my latest piece for @sharks4kids.bsky.social. Got a kid who's into sharks or all things prehistoric? Then this is for them 🦈 Read more here at the Sharks4Kids website: www.sharks4kids.com/post/five-th... 🦈

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Five things to know about prehistoric sharks

Sharks are among the oldest marine vertebrates on Earth – over 450 million years old to be precise. To put that into context; that is older than grass, that is older than trees, and that is even older...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Washington, DC) In response to Shark Week’s 2025 programming including “Dancing with Sharks,” described as “a dance competition between SCUBA divers and their shark dance partners,” shark scientist Dr. David Shiffman has issued the following statement: “Could we not?”

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Let's Jaws for a Minute @jawsforaminute.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

@cooperpalaeo.bsky.social had to take a picture of this for our favourite sharky boi

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