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New Mexico has shark attack on record

New Mexico has shark attack on record
mm, mm hmm, mm. Despite many people's irrational fear of sharks, they're not really that dangerous to humans. But apparently according to a new investigation of 3000 year old human remains, not every encounter with sharks throughout history has been so benign. These bones were found in the early 20th century at a dig site near the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. The researchers say he has almost 800 wounds from sharks, wounds that researchers say show no signs of healing meaning they were fatal. But until recently, archaeologists were unsure what caused the separated skeletal injuries now believed to be from a shark attack. The University of Oxford. Researchers had this to say about the findings. We were initially flummoxed by what could have caused at least 790 deep saturated injuries to this man. There were so many injuries and yet he was buried in the community burial ground, The souk Omo shell mound cemetery site. That's because the wounds didn't match any of the stone tools known to have been in the area at the time, and the body was buried partially dismembered, which is why the archaeologists surmised it could be a shark reaching out to shark expert from the florida Museum of Natural History's florida Program for Shark Research George Burgess, who confirmed it was indeed the work of one of the marine predators, and further identified the injuries as being from a tiger shark.
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New Mexico has shark attack on record
It’s Shark Week in New Mexico! Just kidding, we’re landlocked. But The Land of Enchantment does have at least one shark attack according to the Shark Attack Database.A recent Reddit post showing a map of shark attacks in the United States had a lot of people wondering, how does New Mexico have a Shark Attack?According to the database the attack happened at the Albuquerque Aquarium in March of 2005. The victim was a 45-year-old diver who was in the aquarium display tank.He was bit by a sand-tiger shark and suffered two puncture wounds on the forearm when he and the shark collided. Other landlocked states with shark attacks on record include Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Related video: These 3,000-Year-Old Human Remains Show Injuries of the Earliest Known Shark Attack

It’s Shark Week in New Mexico!

Just kidding, we’re landlocked.

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But The Land of Enchantment does have at least one shark attack according to the Shark Attack Database.

A recent Reddit post showing a map of shark attacks in the United States had a lot of people wondering, how does New Mexico have a Shark Attack?

According to the database the attack happened at the Albuquerque Aquarium in March of 2005.

The victim was a 45-year-old diver who was in the aquarium display tank.

He was bit by a sand-tiger shark and suffered two puncture wounds on the forearm when he and the shark collided.

Other landlocked states with shark attacks on record include Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky.

Related video: These 3,000-Year-Old Human Remains Show Injuries of the Earliest Known Shark Attack