Earlier this week, a picture of a great white shark swimming close to the shore made the local news here in San Diego. I actually saw the broadcast. The news team interviewed a shark expert who confirmed that it was definitely a great white in the photo, and went on to explain that great whites were becoming more common in the area because of the growing seal population. An area of slight discoloration in the water at the right of the photo was said to be the remains of an animal the shark had killed.
But now it turns out the photo was a fake. The original picture showed a dolphin, not a great white. From
10news.com:
Will Phillips told 10News Thursday that that he snapped the actual photo of a dolphin sometime last month. As a joke, a friend of his doctored the picture to make it look like a shark.
However, the doctored photo began to circulate the internet, Phillips said, and somehow made its way to the Shark Research Committee (SRC), which posted it
on its website.
The original, unaltered photo, showing a dolphin
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