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RYAN SEACREST bitten by cat-size shark. Text vote for the shark...
...footage of Star Trek ready to show, so how come the only thing fans got was a poster? Paramount, the studio releasing Star Trek next May, was a no-show in the panels. A studio staffer told me months ago he thought Comic-Con had "jumped the shark." How 'bout a little Vulcan logic, Paramount? It's hard to imagine a crowd better suited for starting the buzz wave on Abrams' rebooted Trek than Comic-Con's 125,000 faithful...
MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28 MythBusters uses its second Shark Week special to test tips on how to survive a sea-critter attack. Then Survivorman's Les Stroud makes himself into human chum to explore ... exactly the same thing! Edge to MythBusters, which builds a cool mechanical great white. MythBusters: B- Surviving...
...Though jellyfish stings don't match shark attacks as a threat to human life - fatalities are usually linked to a few highly toxic species or (more frequently) shock and drowning resulting from multiple stings to people who swim into dense shoals - some French towns battling la meduse have adapted defensive methods from shark-plagued resorts elsewhere in the world. Cannes, for example, has invested nearly $50,000 in floaters and netting to create jellyfish-free zones the size of Olympic swimming pools at two of its most popular beaches. Similar systems have been deployed in Monaco and along certain sections...
Experts have their doubts. Calling on 35 years of experience with sharks and shark attacks in Australian waters, "and my knowledge of shark biology and behavior, I'd say it's highly unlikely that a white shark as large as indicated would get into a lake through a small opening as that at this location," says John West, curator of the Australian Shark Attack File. "White sharks have not been found in estuarine or lake locations before as they are less tolerant of variations in salinity than, say, the bull shark." It seems, West concludes, "that the fisherman...