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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you are interested in Megalodon and all other prehistoric sharks (and let’s face it, who isn’t?) there is a new book coming Feb 9th that you have to get! I was lucky enough to be commissioned to illustrate this amazing book wonderfully written by Dr. Jack Cooper #paleoart #sharks #sciart

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Cover of the book Megalodon and other prehistoric sharks

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

Thanks Daniel. Has been a pleasure and UniPress have been brilliant! Looking forward to all the promo and the book being published 😁

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

"Megalodon and Other Prehistoric Sharks" will be published February 9th! You can pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social website starting November 9th. But if you just can't wait, you can pre-order on Amazon right now; a fantastic way to boost first-week sales! Hope you all enjoy! 🦈 (4/4)

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

This is my 1st book & I'm very grateful to the team at UniPress books for commissioning the book, approaching me to write it, & for being behind me during development. I can't wait for you all to read & see Gabriel's wonderful art bring the sharks to life! 🦈 (3/4)

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

“Megalodon and Other Prehistoric Sharks” is a state-of-the-art look at prehistoric sharks spanning 400 million years to the present day; bringing together the latest discoveries in shark palaeobiology with stunning, full-colour reconstructions of many diverse species (2/4)

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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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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey that's me! And yes, it's a nonsensical claim by these influencers and I stand by every word quoted in the article. Thanks for sharing! 😁🦈

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

Never thought of it like that. Now I wish I had and cannot unsee those images. Love it 😂

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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 · 11/02/2026

Exciting! Looking forward to it! 🦈

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Thanks for your kind words! 😁 I have to thank all the scientists who continue to publish cool work that catches my eye like this; & I hope to do plenty more this year. As well as some other shark & Palaeo writings of mine currently in production, hoping to announce soon 😉

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

I peer reviewed all papers involved in this debate and you can read about the whole tale, and my thoughts on the matter, on my website now: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/just... 🦈 Many thanks to Louis-Philippe Bateman for his correspondence! (5/5) 🦈

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

But there's a problem. This tooth was never illustrated, its origin is questionable & it has never been found in a public repository. Without the data being accessible, we can't really take this ghost tooth at face value, as detailed in a response (4/5) doi.org/10.1139/cjes...

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

However, another researcher (Greenfield 2026) disagreed & argued that a 1910 article reported a megalodon tooth from the Arctic; a finding that would hugely extend megalodon's range (3/5) doi.org/10.1139/cjes...

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

A recent study describing Canadian megalodon teeth made a case for the northernmost range of megalodon being in Denmark, with temperature limiting the giant shark's range. This was published in 2024 in a paper I peer reviewed at the time (2/5) doi.org/10.1139/cjes...

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The first Otodus megalodon remains from Canada and their predicted range limit

Otodus megalodon (Agassiz, 1835) is an extinct species of giant lamniform shark known from Neogene deposits around the world. Despite having been found decades ago, Canadian specimens of O. megalodon ...

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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

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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 · 22/12/2025

Yes, this article is about the work of my colleagues at @pimientogroup.bsky.social, led by the brilliant @kristinakocakova.bsky.social. Thanks for highlighting it Mark! 🦈

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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 · 16/12/2025

All good. Indeed, Netflix does seem to have an issue with misinformation in some of its programs. In my article (linked in the thread), I make this very point & criticise another doc of theirs on the disappearance of MH370, which was just awful conspiracy nonsense 😅

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thanks for reading! I would personally refrain from using some of those terms as it borders on some of the more unprofessional comments Ramsey gets thrown at her. But at the same time, the documentary is extremely unserious & should be criticised for all the reasons said in my article 😅🦈

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Mind you, Jeff Wise is the same guy known for spreading at least one nonsensical conspiracy theory about the disappearance of MH370 on platforms like Netflix (something I found when researching a different bad Netflix doc) so would like to know which "scientists" he's referring to in this slop.

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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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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Yes but it becomes a problem when, like Ramsey, they openly lie about basic scientific facts & peddle total nonsense like ‘I have a special connection to sharks’. That doesn’t help sharks effectively. I’m all for shark-positive media, it’s desperately needed, but it’s got to be done responsibly.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

So, from my work, ‘shark influencers’ tend to be idiots getting up close, recklessly harassing sharks while pretending to be conservationists. Ramsey just also lies about what causes shark declines. ‘Shark hunters’ definitely bad though as they reinforce a lack of empathy for threatened animals.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Thing is, as much as I dislike ‘shark hunters’ like this guy: these individuals aren’t the major driver of overfishing: it’s unsustainable commercial fishing (factories on boats). He’s also (I presume) not claiming to be the sole messiah of sharks like Ramsey is when she misinforms her followers.

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of ‘Mark the Shark’ so could you explain please? Nonetheless, the reason Ramsey gets criticised is because she recklessly harasses sharks & misrepresents science & her role as a ‘conservationist’ to an enormous platform. As my article details rather painstakingly.

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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

A massive thank you to my 4 scientific experts that provided quotes and/or fact checked this huge piece: @whysharksmatter.bsky.social; @melissacmarquez.bsky.social; @kjparton.bsky.social & Mckenzie Margarethe. It was a privilege to have input from some of the biggest marine SciComm voices (8/9)

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