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.
The 10ft shark, a juvenile female found dead last week entangled in a gill-net in Kaipara harbour on New Zealand's North Island, will be examined by scientists, who will measure its internal organs and find out what it ate before it died.
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