Porbeagle & Salmon Sharks - The Underrated Great White Relatives

[@mymom1462]

the porbeagle permanently giving a side-eye

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Them and Threshers :)

[@richmondatkinson8111]

I was driving home round the shores of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, and saw a shark, belly up in the shallows, slopping backwards and forwards in the waves, apparently dead. Wading in knee deep to investigate, I could see it was a small-ish oceanic shark, perhaps 1.8m long. To get a better look, I grabbed it by the tail, thinking to pull it ashore. At this point, to my surprise, it reared its head out of the water, and seemed to fix me with its huge black eye! I wish now that I'd turned it right side up, as sharks can be disabled by being inverted, but I let go and waded ashore rather rapidly! Soon after, Conservation Department people arrived, pronounced it dead, and took it away. It turned out to be a Porbeagle, and I feel privileged to have seen one of these beautiful sharks close up, and only wish it had lived.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

@@richmondatkinson8111 PORKbeagle

[@CristinaF210]

awwwww you are a rare human, at least you tried to save it, good for you !!!

[@johngilmore697]

My girlfriend's 33. I'm 47, she's 14 years younger than me. Back of the net!

[@TheMarcyFran]

WOW. JUST WOW!!! 😳

[@BruceVial]

I live in northwest Ireland and you see these portbeagles very regularly. A lot of them are attracted to angling boats.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

Porkbeagle!

[@jackiem3670]

This single video is so much more fascinating and informative than the past 20 years of "Shark Week" combined

[@dynamoterror18]

It's a real shame that porbeagles are one of the many shark species to have become either locally or functionally extinct at the Mediterranean. In the past, the Mediterranean Sea was once a prime spot for shark diversity and a true paradise for them before the region became overfished. Porbeagles are among my favorite sharks, probably because I have a fondness for sharks with big eyes. 😢

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Hopefully they can return there eventually. We’ve done so much damage… They’re really amazing, and it’s great how cute they are with their large eyes too :)

[@Morrisfactor]

I talked to a commercial diver who was chased from the water by aggressive salmon sharks while exploring a wreck just north of Cordova, Alaska during the late summer months. He said they "were no joke" and gave up any future plans to dive the wreck. I also have a friend who worked many years on salmon seiners in Prince William Sound (Alaska) and they occasionally caught salmon sharks mixed in with the salmon. The biggest one measured 12 feet long and he estimated it "somewhere around 500 lbs". He mentioned that no one wanted to fall into the net while they tried to get the sharks untangled, and sometimes they ended up shooting the sharks just to be able to clear them from the seine net.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

That’s terrible.

[@Morrisfactor]

@@LordCrate-du8zm They didn't want to kill them either, but sometimes the sharks were so wrapped up there was little choice.

[@Brandon-br7tc]

A 12 feet long salmon would weigh a lot more than 500 pounds I’d bet. Probably closer to 1,000.

[@Morrisfactor]

@@Brandon-br7tc It might well have weighed more, my buddy guessed it weighed around that amount. He showed me photos of the shark wrapped up in the net and hoisted aboard the seiner.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

These are literally my two favorite Sharks and you posted this 2 days before my birthday. I really appreciate your videos. You make quality informative content.

[@ericmartens3424]

Agreed, and I wish you a nice birthday 👍

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Bro they are so silly i love them so much

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Large amounts of goober energy from them

[@Charlou27]

💯. I agree. They are amazing. I want to hug them. They look very smooth. 😉

[@rickfromhell]

I love your comment.

[@cassiusdio6048]

I love them so much I want to be eaten by one. 😮

[@cassiusdio6048]

@@Charlou27 Their skin can actually cut you, it is like very sharp sandpaper.

[@sospeakthefreak6269]

Thanks a Lot ! i have waitet for Years to See a Documantation about Porbeagle Sharks and Salmon Sharks .Well Done !

[@LastEarBender]

Portbeagle looks a little like a mako as well

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Certainly quite similar!

[@DreadEnder]

Got this notification while watching a shark short. Perfect.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The world is all the better with more shark content in the world :)

[@skypaver989]

Someone told me that there's a little electrical buzzing device that sharks can sense that people can put in large nets that works to prevent shark bycatch. I really hope it catches on, if it hasn't already, and that greater respect for the diversity of sea life can be fostered.

[@morgan4574]

2:00 great shot of the shark's iris here, props to the photographer! The Great White has the same ice blue iris. Its hard to get a good view of their irises with them recessed into their heads.

[@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross]

I was sitting on the beach with a friend a couple of months back, staring out at the eastern Pacific Ocean/west Vancouver island. My friend was telling me how scared she was of the ocean because of the sharks. I told her, "The only shark out there is the salmon shark, and guess what they eat?" She stares at me, "salmon?" "Yep, we aren't on their menu." But apparently, Great Whites have been spotted this far north, but I think it was a misidentification.

[@Audfile]

A salmon shark could absolutely attack and eat you. It's a 14 foot, turbocharged fish that also does prey on mammals. I wouldn't dive in to swim with one.

[@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross]

@@Audfile I am not feeding into my best friends fear.

[@Audfile]

@@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross you might save your best friends life!

[@tengonadacluewhatsgutsprec1419]

Gps tagging does suggest great whites are in your area, even so I wouldn't hesitate to dive there. Sharks aren't nearly as bad as many people fear!

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

​@@Audfile14 feet is the absolute maximum size of a salmon shark. There has never been a confirmed attack by a salmon shark on a human

[@BonsterousYT]

The Salmon Shark is definitely my favorite shark. Its such an interesting animal.

[@ergerg-su2jr]

I refuse to believe KZbin isn’t listening to me through my phone, I said Porbeagle twice last night and now all of the sudden I get a porbeagle video

[@ufc990]

Umm googles pretty open about taking all your data, don't know what rock you've been living under

[@cameronjones8641]

It's no secret that phones track speech.

[@melvinshine9841]

I don't think I've ever seen footage of an adult salmon shark that didn't have those little parasites attached to their dorsal or pectoral fins. They probably don't bother the shark that much, but I just want to pick them off every time I see them. Is that weird?

[@mamotalemankoe3775]

No. I have the same yearning when I see them.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

Aww, they look so cute. They remind me of Jeff the Land Shark.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Very true!

[@kevinmajorca]

They have such cute big eyes 👁💖.

[@leobuana7430]

Then you find out the kelp rolling and play tag,double the cuteness

[@1998topornik]

Indeed

[@sekaiomiruhitokaminoyume5426]

Is to better see you my child

[@BruceVial]

They always look like they are caught in act. Nothing to see here, shifty

[@ericmartens3424]

Thank you for your take on these beautiful animals, very interesting 👌

[@EVOLUTIONINCARNATE]

lovely video done on my favorite living sharks excellent

[@gabork5055]

It's interesting how they are related to Great Whites while looking like Shortfin Makos, meanwhile Shortfin Makos are the closest living relatives of the Megalodons which are usually depicted as oversized Great Whites.

[@napkinanimations]

Glad I was finally able to catch your video! You did an awesome job. I love you how were able go into the differences between Salmon Sharks and Porbeagles. Excited to see what you do next :)

[@DreadEnder]

What’s your favourite shark fact? One of mine is that they have been around for roughly 450 million years.

[@asmagamer728]

And that they’re older than trees in terms of origins

[@DreadEnder]

@@asmagamer728 and they have stereotypical dragon scales which are made of dentin, the same as teeth so we think that shark scales evolved from their teeth!

[@Habubachu]

such a perfect specimen its hardly needed to change at all.

[@skycloud4802]

Thank you for the video on these two amazing sharks. The Porbeagle is among my some of myfavourites sharks and the Salmon Shark is a very mysterious one I'm curious about.

[@Cybermat47]

Was just looking up these guys last night!

[@MinTed63]

Packed full of information . Well done :)

[@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870]

I love sharks because they have this prehistoric-like look

[@mondraymondo]

great white but chibi

[@honnorgaurd]

they both look so adorable

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

They do indeed!

[@ivantothemax]

I’ve always had in unexplainable fear of sharks in pools but when I’m in the ocean I totally forget about them cuz I’m too distracted by if seaweed touches me 😩😩😩

[@Potz4pizza]

Funny enough... diving underwater, kelp is chill and cool... at the surface... omggetthisnastyshitoffmeeeee

[@kreation2021]

Could you do all species of crocodilians? Because they are underrated 😊

[@indyreno2933]

On the contrary, there actually are sharks in Antarctica and the Porbeagle (Lamna nasus) is one of the sharks that is also found in Antarctica.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Didn’t mention they didn’t, but yes, they can range down there, absolutely

[@pavlovsdogman]

In the deep waters off Antarctica there's no reason to think members of the Sleeper shark family wouldn't exist either? The temperature at 10,000 feet of water is the same in Antarctica as it is at the equator and there's evidence Pacific Sleeper sharks and Greenland sharks may live anywhere where the water is deep enough and there's enough food? If a large adult Greenland shark could be caught in the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico then they could be in the deepest parts of the Antarctic ocean?

[@indyreno2933]

The Southern Sleeper Shark (Somniosus antarcticus) is a different species from both the Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) and the Pacific Sleeper Shark (Somniosus pacificus), as its scientific name suggests, the southern sleeper shark does live in Antarctica.

[@pavlovsdogman]

@@indyreno2933 I assumed they were all sleepers due to appearance, slow movement, deep water habitat etc? We don't know though what could be in the deep waters of many oceans? If the southern sleeper shark is there other species could be there? A pacific sleeper shark was found washed up on the shore in southern Chile which is not too far from Antarctic waters?

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

Salmon shark I didn't know existed till later on

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Happy you’ve now learned about them! :)

[@williamandrews4251]

The Salmon Shark looks kind of frightened and their mouths appear small.

[@billammann9807]

Fascinating information to learn about these two species of sharks. Would be great to hear about each and every species of shark.

[@mamotalemankoe3775]

Wow, they really do look like baby Great Whites. Never heard of these interesting creatures. They have such weird proportions, their pec and dorsal fins are very broad and as mentioned they have huge eyes. I hope more can be done to keep em safe.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Happy you’ve now learned about them! They’re really amazing :)

[@jordanrioscreations]

They look terrifying as hell

[@StanWatt.]

It's an excellent video, sir. We once had a Porbeagle caught and died in a salmon net around the coast of my village when I was a ten-year-old - in the '60s. It caused quite a stir. I remember touching its teeth and skin. Are those marked areas where you find resident sharks? Do they migrate from North to South and South to North? If not, how do they establish themselves in those areas?

[@jonnoble5624]

Even as a life-long thalassophobe, I find it abhorrent that in just a few thousand years we've undone some of the most successful evolution this planet has ever seen. Hopefully the Earth's next dominant species will be a bit more careful of the life around it than we were.

[@devlinmcbane7255]

They won’t, and we came from the fauna of this place, due to the massive amount of social hormones like oxytocin and our ability to be parents and the type of chemical receptors that come with that should tell you just how treacherous nature would have had to be in order to make us so mean to things considering just how much we have the capability to have compassion whereas it is such a random event in the wild if at all to have ANY compassion, yet in humanity is the only chance for peace for this world. Give your species a chance, we are not the monsters these freaks in greenpeace and juststopoil would have you believe.

[@jonnoble5624]

@@devlinmcbane7255 Nothing but several decades of objective data and subjective experience inform my original comment. I appreciate your attempt to instill some hope but we are a species now so out of balance with the natural order that I cannot see your logic. We have an unparalleled capacity for destruction, a nearly unique appetite for it, and we're irresponsible to boot. At least previous cataclysms have been dispassionate; we're just thoughtless.

[@devlinmcbane7255]

@@jonnoble5624 well then perhaps we should indeed be more responsible for ourselves, on that I do agree, but we have to love ourselves enough to realize we deserve it. Hang in there sir, I wish you the best.

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

​@@jonnoble5624 Most of the destruction being done is not by humanity at large, but by a small international clique of plutocrats who control 90% of our industries and media.

[@RenoKyrie]

Arent Basking Sharks also surprisingly related to Great Whites And they get mistaken as Megalodons daily, also they can swim for 1000+ Groups And they can surprisingly Breach out if water like their relatives

[@billcowan5539]

They are Amazing Animals and they need to be protected !

[@marktrigg467]

Agreed

[@antoniaweber8074]

are you doing a whole week of videos?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

That's the aim, though it's taken more effort to do than I thought it would. Hopefully I can keep it consistent in the coming days. :)

[@rickfromhell]

Literally everything about these sharks is adorable or badass or both.

[@evilcow666]

The little critter sharks

[@antoinegrujon8287]

Interesting video. When I worked as a dive master in Tofo Mozambique, juvenile whale sharks would often repeatedly bump our surface marker buoys with their snouts (rostrum) during a dive. They seemed to enjoy doing so and were very curious. We could be diving at depth and suddenly have the reel whisked out of our hands

[@thecaveofthedead]

Wonderful. I knew nothing about either of these sharks except for the name of the Porbeagle.

[@jnzupka]

You got the idea from Napkin Animation’s video didn’t you? No shame if you did, it’s awesome that these sharks are getting more attention

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Nope, I had already planned it out and was working on the video when I came across theirs while researching for it. :) They did a very good job in their coverage, so I'm happy to see some people from that community here too.

[@jnzupka]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy I was joking I knew it was a coincidence, but still great video

[@Smw006]

Chibi Great Whites!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Pretty much! :D

[@Reed3527]

I have a question, do all the Lamnidae sharks have a fascination with kelp or something? Because I saw a video of a great white playing with kelp in another video

[@bkjeong4302]

Really wish we had some porbeagle predation footage..

[@nospoon4799]

I saw a video of one chasing a lure being trolled.

[@nickmitsialis]

an episode on National Geographic about salmon sharks feature the salmon sharks chasing and eating salmon in Prince William Sound.

[@djnickbennett]

Thank you.

[@robynpicknell7801]

Right, well I can definitely say that I learnt something new today. I had no idea that ANY shark species displayed any kind of prey behaviour at all! I mean, I have never doubted their intelligence, if they were not at least a little intelligent, then there is no way they could have lasted for as long as they have as a species surely, but it never occurred to me to do see if they ever displayed any kind of play behaviour at all. And here I was, thinking that I was, hopefully, nowhere near as prejudiced towards sharks as so many other people are. Going to have to review that now, which is not necessarily a bad thing I believe.

[@DennisLock-x8f]

Hear that they're all good eating...

[@DarkAzreal]

Sharks are not demonized at all anymore I actually think people think wrong that sharks are puppy dogs and don't want to ever eat a human when they will

[@skycloud4802]

A middle ground is much needed these days. Sure we don't don't want to go back to demonising sharks, but we don't want to be encouraging swimmers to get close to them either.

[@williamkuhns2387]

The salmon shark is unusual in that it has an ossified rostum on tip of otherwise cartilaginous skull. Normally other than teeth the vertibral centra are partially ossified in shark and ray family. The ancestors of Chumash first nation people's from Morro Bay to Malibu, California used these ossified rostra as religious talismans along the Santa Barbara channel specifically. Their teeth were used as drill bits for boring holes in wood like canoe planks.

[@happymonkeyfish]

Its a shame people kill these sharks their so cool

[@leobuana7430]

And cute, imagine watching them play tag

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

It’s really shameful that we’ve done so on such an industrial scale too. It’s really hard to imagine just how much has been lost, honestly…

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

That would be amazing to see too

[@Mephistopholies]

I'm on Bristol bay harvesting Salmon right now.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Awesome! Hope you’re having a good time out there :)

[@leoornstein3963]

These guys are so cute

[@dianacryer]

I found a salmon shark while walking on one of our local beaches here in the Pacific Northwest. I had never heard of them. It was only about 2 1/2’ long and at first I thought it was a baby White. It was the cutest thing. It was dead unfortunately. I took a photo to try and find out what it was.

[@cpuuk]

Mackerel sharks FTW

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Hell yeah

[@1998topornik]

Cute shorks!

[@AtropalArbaal-dk8jv]

Porbeagles are CUTE.

[@chevyboyforlife4234]

If humanity did not commercial fish the ocean for 5 years, the populations of most fish will jump back. If we wait 10 years they'll be back to historic numbers for the most part.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Considering all the land use changes we’ve made through our anthropogenic impacts, in some ways that won’t be the case, but generally that would be the case.

[@kingghidorah8106]

great video but you kept showing photos of dead sharks which is quite disturbing to be honest.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Finding more alive was harder to come by, but at least for educational reasons, still featuring them gives more attention to them as animals regardless, as unfortunate as it is.

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@HenrythePaleoGuymaybe it raises the wanted awareness.

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦈Hey Henry The PaleoGuy, please make a KZbin Videos Shows about Edestus, the “Scissor-Toothed Shark” on the Henry The PaleoGuy’s Shark Week Show!!🦈👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ambertypereiraty3627]

Edestus? 😮 Never heard of him 😅 but VERY keen on learning about him now that you've brought him to my attention!!! Scissor-toothed Shark videos, here I come!! ..... ...... ..... 😢 can't find any.... C'mon PaleoGuy --- you HAVE TO MAKE A VIDEO ON THE SCISSOR-TOOTHED SHARK NOW!!! My interest is peaked..... 🤔

[@markcaputo8300]

❤❤ Nice! ❤❤

[@nicolassenmartin1018]

MY FOOKIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MY BELOVED GOOBIES I LOVE LAMNA SHARKS SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU HENRY FOR SUCH CONTENT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

They’re really cute, and I’m happy more people are realising that! :)

[@yxx_chris_xxy]

You cannot get respect as a shark if your name is porbeagle. They are the Rodney Dangerfields of sharks.

[@RamenNoodlePackets]

I've always been fascinated by porbeagles and mako's since seeing them in the flesh back in the day, very cool fish. I hate how bad of a rap sharks get, we kill over a 100 million of them per year, it's tragic. I believe that the size of the eyes on the porbeagle are indicative of intelligence, that explains why they like to play.

[@RheaMainz]

Their huge eyes make them cute!

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

They really do!

[@skypaver989]

I love their big googly eyes, they're very cute

[@trezndawg4240]

Their eyea are huge! They look like the first cousin's of Great Whites!

[@Hepler-s2b]

So Jaws from ali express vs Jaws from wish

[@AcesReaper]

The porbeagle is a temu great white lmao

[@kai-ul5gx]

We are monsters not sharks

[@nickopeters]

(Not to be rude, but I hope at least some of the landed sharks shown in your pictures, were safely returned to the water before they were no longer viable. They look very sentient with the big eyes they have;).

[@qwikscopez6619]

Hell yes, eepy time

[@louieHuelsman]

Yes that why I said P sharks cause I didn’t remember the name porbeagle!!!! Ty!!!

[@matanuskabutler7566]

I always forget we have salmon sharks in Alaska until one of the bastards steals my catch just before it breaks the water surface...

[@tokewarming]

Damn those dogs are cute!

[@leoornstein3963]

It turned out Blahaj is real.

[@spanishmountains4588]

These guys are so cute. It's tragic how much damage humans have caused to marine life.

[@tebusan6217]

Lol salmon sharks get pretty much get little coverage compared to the other

[@OPC249]

Porbeagles are the temu version of great white sharks

[@tebusan6217]

I wanna seem them in action :/

[@ghostshirt1984]

Sadly most people don't care about sharks which why they are hard to save from us people.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

porkbeagles are dangerous shark.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Porkbeagles or porbeagles? Lol. In any case, they really aren't. If anything you should be far more scared of any domestic animal. Sharks look scarier comparatively, but they kill far fewer people than dogs do, etc. That is biased of course, since they're on land and prevalent, but even so, sharks just don't attack people all that often.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy they originally were named PORKbeagles due to a zoological investigation near a pig processing plant propulsion pipe which pushed out pig parts and pig poop into the sea PORT.

[@siauciunaite]

"What likely happened". LOL Great science there. That's what I used to tell my mother, when she asked who broke the window.

[@deandredunbar9618]

ive had salmon shark before its pretty good. a buddy of mine caught one on acvident white fishing for halibut in alaska.

[@Belzediel]

Didn't really understand all that evolution stuff, did ya.

[@aunttpathfinder5049]

❤❤❤🙏❤❤❤

[@shannonspear8751]

More like a Fat Mako 🦈

[@TheManOWrath]

I'm not buying the Porpoise-Beagle thing.

[@phantasma9391]

It's not for sale.

[@greenguitarfish]

I am interested in the sharks, but not the silly evolutionary preaching about how the species came to be. You have no idea, and evolution ( not to be confused with adaptation ) has been dismantled by modern discoveries into genetics and mutations.

[@danielhoffmann1454]

Robot talking?

[@reeyees50]

Why dont we eat these delicious looking fish?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

They have a good deal of protections, and also have a very low fecundity as mentioned in the video

[@diggerrob6356]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Here in Australia Great Whites had low numbers while seals were being harvested commercially. Since sealing stopped their numbers have been increasing.

[@grandyhynes1636]

Passing speculation off as fact . FAIL !!!

[@Daniel-kx4sy]

Ai channel 😡

[@nicksweeney5176]

Incorrect. You make big mistake.

[@Daniel-kx4sy]

@@nicksweeney5176 Listen to that voice and the writing too. It's so obvious.

[@nicksweeney5176]

@Daniel-kx4sy No, we are disagreed. Sometimes, we hear what we wanna hear; I think you've decided he's A.I., and, consequently, you hear what you wanna hear.