noticed a large tumor protruding from the mouth of a great white shark,
as well as another mass on the head of a bronze whaler shark. The great
white's tumor measured 1 foot (30 centimeters) long and 1 foot wide,
according to a study describing the tumors published online in November
in the Journal of Fish Diseases.
"This was a very unusual sight as we have never before seen a [great] white shark with tumors," said Rachel Robbins, a study co-author and shark biologist at the Fox Shark Research Foundation, near Adelaide, in southern Australia.
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