News - Powered by Yahoo NewsAuckland museum stages public shark dissection
Was dissection before 1,500-strong crowd important research or publicity exercise, asks James Sturcke
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:48:35 GMT - (Guardian Unlimited)
Crowds flock to see great white shark dissection
Around 1500 people flocked to Auckland Museum today to see a public dissection of a great white shark -- believed to be a first in New Zealand.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:24:27 GMT - (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Scientists aim to dispel great white myths with public dissection
It is one of modern cinema's iconic moments: Richard Dreyfuss carving open a great white shark in Jaws to reveal a car licence-plate and a crushed can in its stomach. On Thursday, the Auckland Museum will stage a public dissection of a great white, attended by 1,000 watchers and streamed live online.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:14:18 GMT - (Independent)
'Jaws Autopsy' Recreated Online
A museum has broadcast the dissection of a Great White shark in an effort to dispel the myths associated with the film Jaws.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:19:00 GMT - (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Great White Shark Dissection to Be Shown Live Online
New Zealand team to perform necropsy on huge shark in from of Web cameras later this week.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:58:58 GMT - (Fox News)
Crowd turns out to see shark dissected
About 1500 people flocked to Auckland Museum today to see a public dissection of a great white shark - believed to be a first in New Zealand. Despite the blazing heat, people showed up in their droves to get a glimpse of the giant predator.
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:06:34 GMT - (Otago Daily Times)
Live dissection of great white shark to be beamed around the world
Scientists will cut open a 10ft great white shark live on website.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:57:50 GMT - (Daily Telegraph)
Television - National
The hot summer New Zealanders are having has sent many people to the beach. There are swimmers, boaties, fishermen - and then there are some who seem to spend most of the time with their heads in the sand. But they're not hiding â? as 3 News discovered, they are busy hunting an almost mythical shellfish that inhabits the sands of the Far North.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:15:55 GMT - (Scoop.co.nz)
Television - National
The body of one of two Australian tourists crushed under an icefall at the Fox Glacier may never be recovered. The glacier's sheer ice wall where the two brothers were posing for photographs is too unstable for the remaining body to be retrieved, and heavy rain may yet bring down tonnes more ice on top of it.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:00:56 GMT - (Scoop.co.nz)
Television - National
The hot summer New Zealanders are having has sent many people to the beach. There are swimmers, boaties, fishermen - and then there are some who seem to spend most of the time with their heads in the sand.
Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:01:06 GMT - (Scoop.co.nz)