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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Deleted Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Royal Society Open Science - Eyes on the size: accuracy of visual length estimates of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharis. | Aug 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Royal Society Open Science - Eyes on the size: accuracy of visual length estimates of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharis. | Aug 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Royal Society Open Science - Eyes on the size: accuracy of visual length estimates of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharis. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - Great white sharks: Dangerous man-eaters or marine marvels? | Apr 18, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - White shark genome reveals ancient elasmobranch adaptations associated with wound healing and the maintenance of genome stability. | Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Deep Past of the White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Mediterranean Sea: A Synthesis of Its Palaeobiology and Palaeoecology. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals - Great White Shark Fact Sheet. | Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Added interactive. | Jul 01, 2024 | ||
| Revised to modernize spellings. | Jun 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Fund for Animal Welfare - Great white sharks. | Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian Ocean - Great White Shark. | Jun 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: NOAA Fisheries - White Shark. | Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Deleted video. | Mar 01, 2021 | ||
| Changed “undergoing a decline.” to “undergoing a decline, but the white shark has only been assessed in selected regions, such as the Mediterranean Sea, where it is considered critically endangered.” in the section Ecology. | Nov 05, 2020 | ||
| Added illustration of a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). | Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 07, 2018 | ||
| Added video that describes some of the limitations related to shark research; added photograph of a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching the surface of the ocean. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Noted the conservation status of and the major threats to white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Added video. | May 21, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Great White Shark. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Animals - Great White Shark. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Great white shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Conservation Council of South Australia - Great White Shark information. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: h2g2 - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Corner - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fish Base - Carcharodon carcharias. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Great White Shark Facts. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Great White Sharks Work. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: SeaWorld - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Aquatic Community - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Fisheries and Aquaculture Department - White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Australian Museum - White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: California Department of Fish and Game - White Shark Information. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Department of the Environment and Water Resources - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wildscreen Arkive - Great white shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Great white shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - The Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Carcharodon carcharias. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Musuem of Natural History - Ocean Portal - Great White Shark. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Added image of a white shark. | Apr 20, 2012 | ||
| Added photographs. | Aug 17, 2011 | ||
| Article restructured. | Aug 17, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Extreme Science - The Biggest Carnivorous Fish - Great White Shark. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 18, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Shark Information - Great White Shark. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Fish Base - Great White Shark. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: MrNussBaum - Great White Sharks. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Think Quest - Great White Shark. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Canadian Shark Research Laboratory - The Great White Shark. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Discovery Shark Guide - Great White Sharks. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Ocean Life - Great White Shark. | Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Government of South Australia - Great White Sharks. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Shark Research Committee - Distribution and Diet of Pacific Coast White Sharks. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: h2g2 - The Great White Shark. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Wildlife Conservation Society - Great White Shark Conservation. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: South African Coastal Information Centre - Great White Shark. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The great white shark & southern right whale project, gansbaai - South Africa - Great White Shark - Habitat & Distribution. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Australianfauna.com - The Great White Shark. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Elasmodiver.com - Great White Shark. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Great White Shark. | Sep 08, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Great White Shark. | Aug 29, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Great White Shark. | Mar 10, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | May 04, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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