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A single mother is living her best life after deciding to travel the world with her toddler while on a three-year paid maternity leave. 

Sarah Noack, 26, of Frankfurt, Germany, just recently ended her maternity leave and quit her job. 

The flight attendant became pregnant with her first child, Luana Noack, in 2021 and was told she could not work for the airline while pregnant. 

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That meant that Sarah Noack would be placed on maternity leave from then on. 

She told SWNS, however, that her company would also allow mothers to continue on maternity leave during their breastfeeding journey — which for this mom would be for roughly two more years. 

“Flight attendants aren’t allowed to work when they are pregnant at the airline I was with, so I was still having a full salary but not working,” she said.

“I have been on parental leave since my daughter was born,” she added, as “we have a breastfeeding policy where you get your whole salary while breastfeeding.”

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Sarah Noack decided to take the time off as an opportunity to travel the world with her newborn daughter. 

“I wanted to have an adventurous life and have a child,” she told SWNS. 

The single mom took her two-week-old baby to Barcelona, Spain, to start out her traveling adventure. 

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From there, baby Luana Noack took her first steps on a beach in Bali and spoke her first words in Indonesia — something her mother said was a memorable experience. 

Although traveling full-time with a newborn baby likely sounds difficult in theory to many, Sarah Noack said she actually found it to be easier than “having a normal routine in Germany.”

She said, “Backpacking hasn’t been difficult with a baby as she was so small, [but] it is getting harder now [that] she is getting bigger and has started running around.”

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Today, the pair have been to 17 countries in the first two-and-a-half years of the toddler’s life. 

The mom of one, who is now a freelance social media manager, told SWNS the pair have spent a month in Thailand, two months in Portugal and three weeks in Cambodia, to name a few stops. 

Sarah Noack said her favorite country to visit was Nepal because of its rich culture. 

She said, “The country blew me away. It was beautiful [and] so different to every other place I have ever been to.”

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She has also started a podcast discussing her adventure as a full-time traveling mom called “Hot Mum Things.” 

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With over 60,000 followers on Instagram, Sarah Noack shares the daily realities of traveling the world with her toddler. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Sarah Noack for further comment.

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First lady Jill Biden said Monday she’s “all in” on her husband, the commander-in-chief’s re-election campaign. 

During a campaign event to address veterans and military families in Wilmington, North Carolina, the first lady said President Biden had always supported her career. 

“As commander-in-chief, President Biden wakes up every morning ready to work for you. That’s what this election is all about. You. For all the talk out there about this race, Joe has made it clear that he’s all in,” Jill Biden said to chants of “four more years.” 

“Thanks! That’s a decision that he’s made. And just as he has always supported my career, I am all in too!” she added. 

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The first lady was to announce the formation of Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris during stops Monday in Wilmington, as well as Tampa, Florida, and Columbus, Georgia. The states have large populations of veterans and military families.

Her daylong tour is part of the Biden campaign’s broader effort to rebound from the president’s halting performance against Trump in last month’s debate, which led a handful of House Democrats and others to call on Biden to end his campaign because they no longer believe the 81-year-old president is mentally and physically capable of defeating former President Trump in November’s election.

Biden has insisted, during public appearances since the June 27 debate, that he is staying in the race. 

His campaign manager, Julie Chávez Rodríguez, said the new group will work to engage and mobilize millions of veterans and military families in the U.S. to vote for a second Biden term.

In Wilmington, the first lady cited a report that Trump, during a 2018 trip to France, referred to service members who paid the ultimate sacrifice as “suckers” and “losers.” 

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“With four more years, Joe will continue to fight for you, the military community that he … that we are humble and proud to call our own. My dad, my father, served in World War II as a Navy signalman. And in 2003, our son Beau joined the Delaware Army National Guard and then served for a year in Iraq. This is personal to us,” she said. 

“We know what it’s like to wait to connect with a live phone call from across the world, to smile through another holiday with an empty chair at the table,” the first lady continued. “Let me ask you this – does Donald Trump know what it’s like? He describes himself as a sacrifice for this country. His own chief of staff said he called POWs and those who died in war losers and suckers.” 

Trump denied having made the comments. 

Also at the debate, Biden made the stunning omission of the 13 U.S. service members killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal, claiming, “Truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any – this decade – that didn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like [President Trump] did.”

The first lady framed the withdrawal more positively Monday. 

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“[Biden] made the call to end the war in Afghanistan because the sacrifice of our military families was too steep for too long,” she said. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming.

“Despicable Me 4,” the Illumination Animation sequel, led the way over the holiday weekend with $75 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday and $122.6 million since opening on Wednesday, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Independence Day holiday weekend haul for the Universal Pictures release further extends the considerable box-office reign of the Minions, arguably the most bankable force in movies today. And it also kept a summer streak going for Hollywood.

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Though overall ticket sales were down more than 40% from levels prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, heading into the summer moviegoing season, theaters have lately seen a succession of hits. After Sony’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” outperformed expectations, Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” rapidly cleared $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide, making it the first release since “Barbie” to reach that mark. Last weekend, the Paramount prequel “A Quiet Place: Day One” also came in above expectations.

With “Deadpool & Wolverine” tracking for a $160 million launch later this month, Hollywood’s summer is looking up.

“If you look at the mood of the industry about eight weeks ago, very different than today,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. “The song says what a difference a day makes. What a difference a month has made.”

It helps to have the Minions at your disposal. Since first debuting in the 2010 original “Despicable Me,” each entry of the franchise — including two sequels and two “Minions” spinoffs — has been seemingly guaranteed to gross around $1 billion. The four previous movies all made between $939 million (2022’s “Minions: Rise of Gru”) and $1.26 billion (2015’s “Minions”) globally.

That run has helped give Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri one of the most enviable track records in Hollywood. “Despicable Me 4,” directed by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage, returns the voice cast led by Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig and doubles down on more Minion mayhem. Reviews (54% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) weren’t particularly good for the latest installment, which includes a witness protection plot and a group of Minions transformed into a superhero squadron. But in their 12-year run, little has slowed down the Minions.

“This is one of the most beloved franchises, quite frankly, in the history of film, and certainly animation,” said Jim Orr, distribution chief for Universal. “Chris Meledandri and Illumination have their finger on the pulse of what families and audiences around the world want to see.”

Family movies are powering the box office. “Despicable Me 4” performed strongly despite the still considerable drawing power of “Inside Out 2.” In its fourth weekend of release, the Pixar sequel added another $30 million domestically and $78.3 million overseas.

“Inside Out 2,” with $1.22 billion in ticket sales thus far, is easily the year’s biggest hit and fast climbing up the all-time ranks for animated releases. It currently ranks as the No. 5 animated release worldwide.

Instead of cannibalizing the opening weekend for “Despicable Me 4,” “Inside Out 2” may have helped get families back in the habit of heading to theaters.

“What happened, I think, is the release calendar finally settled into a nice rhythm,” said Dergarabedian, referencing the jumbled movie schedule from last year’s strikes. “It’s all about momentum.”

The continued strong sales for “Inside Out 2” were enough to put the film in second place for the domestic weekend. Last week’s top new film, “A Quiet Place: Day One,” slid to third with $21 million in its second weekend, with another $21.1 million from overseas theaters. That was a steep decrease of 60%, though the Paramount prequel has amassed $178.2 million worldwide in two weeks.

The run of hits has caused some studios to boost their forecasts for the summer movie season. Heading into the most lucrative season at theaters, analysts were predicting a $3 billion summer, down from the more typical $4 billion mark. Now, closer to $3.4 billion appears likely.

The weekend’s other top new release was Ti West’s “MaXXXine,” the third in a string of slasher films from A24 starring Mia Goth. In 2,450 locations, “MaXXXine” collected $6.7 million in ticket sales, a franchise best. The film, which follows “X” and “Pearl” (both released in 2022), stars Goth as a 1980s Hollywood starlet being hunted by a killer known as the Night Stalker.

Angel Studios, which last year released the unexpected summer hit “Sound of Freedom,” struggled to find the same success with its latest Christian film, “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.” It debuted with $3.2 million.

Kevin Costner’s big-budget gamble, “Horizon: An American Saga,” didn’t do much to turn around its fortunes in its second weekend. The first chapter in what Costner hopes will be a four-part franchise – including a chapter two Warner Bros. will release in August – earned $5.5 million in its second weekend. The film, which cost more than $100 million to make, has grossed $22.2 million in two weeks.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

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The bird flu strain found in cows in the United States is not easily transmitted through the air among ferrets, a new study shows, although the scientist who led the work said it had shown some ability to spread this way.

Ferrets are considered to be the best small mammal for studying influenza virus infection and transmission, and are often used to inform assessments of the public health risk of emerging viruses.

In the experiment led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ferrets infected with a sample of the H5N1 bird flu strain were placed near healthy animals, but not close enough for physical contact.

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None of the four healthy ferrets exposed in this way became ill, and no virus was recovered from them during the study.

However, one of the ferrets had produced antibodies to the virus, the researchers later found, suggesting it had been infected.

“It is good news that the virus does not have extensive transmissibility between ferrets through the air, but it is concerning that it has the ability to transmit (at all in this way),” said study author and flu virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka.

A virus that can spread easily through the air between humans would pose a greater pandemic threat than H5N1 currently does.

That risk is currently assessed by public health agencies worldwide as low, as there is no evidence yet of any human-to-human transmission.

Four human cases have been reported in the U.S. since avian flu was confirmed in dairy cows in March. All have recovered.

The study, published on Monday in Nature, also showed the bird flu virus in cows can bind to human-type receptors under lab conditions. These receptors are how flu viruses typically enter and infect human cells in the real world.

Bird flu prefers to bind to avian-type receptors only, which are scarce in humans. The lab results need further study to assess their real-world implications, scientists said, as in the past flu viruses that developed the ability to bind to both types have caused human pandemics.

The study also confirmed that the virus, isolated from the milk of an infected cow in New Mexico, made both mice and ferrets sick after exposure to the unpasteurized milk.

It also spread through the body to muscles and mammary glands in infected mice, as it appears to do in cows.

Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said it was a relief to see the virus had not yet acquired the capability to cause a human pandemic, but this did not mean it would never do so, particularly if the spread among cows goes unchecked.

“It’s always better to stop a pandemic before it starts than to respond to it once it has started. We should heed this warning and take action now,” she said via email.

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French President Emmanuel Macron refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him on Monday to remain temporarily as the head of the government after chaotic election results left the government in limbo.

French voters split the legislature on the left, center and far right, leaving no faction even close to the majority needed to form a government. The results from Sunday’s vote raised the risk of paralysis for the European Union’s second-largest economy.

Macron gambled that his decision to call snap elections would give France a “moment of clarification,” but the outcome showed the opposite, less than three weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics, when the country will be under an international spotlight.

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The French stock market fell on opening but quickly recovered, possibly because markets had feared an outright victory for the far right or the leftist coalition.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal had said he would remain in office if needed but offered his resignation Monday morning. Macron, who named him just seven months ago, immediately asked him to stay on “to ensure the stability of the country.” Macron’s top political allies joined the meeting with Attal at the presidential palace, which ended after about 90 minutes.

Attal on Sunday made clear that he disagreed with Macron’s decision to call the surprise elections. The results of two rounds of voting left no obvious path to form a government for the leftist coalition that came in first, Macron’s centrist alliance or the far right.

Newly elected and returning lawmakers were expected to gather at the National Assembly to begin negotiations in earnest. Macron himself will leave midweek for a NATO summit in Washington.

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Political deadlock could have far-ranging implications for the war in Ukraine, global diplomacy and Europe’s economic stability. Still, at least one leader said the results were a relief.

“In Paris enthusiasm, in Moscow disappointment, in Kyiv relief. Enough to be happy in Warsaw,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a former European Union Council head, wrote late Sunday on X.

According to official results released early Monday, all three main blocs fell far short of the 289 seats needed to control the 577-seat National Assembly, the more powerful of France’s two legislative chambers.

The results showed just over 180 seats for the New Popular Front leftist coalition, which placed first, ahead of Macron’s centrist alliance, with more than 160 seats. Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its allies were restricted to third place, although their more than 140 seats were still way ahead of the party’s previous best showing of 89 seats in 2022.

Macron has three years remaining on his presidential term.

Rather than rallying behind Macron as he’d hoped, millions took the vote as an opportunity to vent anger about inflation, crime, immigration and other grievances — including his style of government.

The New Popular Front’s leaders immediately pushed Macron to give them the first chance to form a government and propose a prime minister. The faction pledges to roll back many of Macron’s headline reforms, embark on a costly program of public spending, and take a tougher line against Israel because of its war with Hamas. But it’s not clear, even among the left, who could lead the government without alienating crucial allies.

“We need someone who offers consensus,” said Olivier Faure, head of the Socialist Party, which joined the leftist coalition and was still sorting out how many seats it won on Monday.

Macron warns that the left’s economic program of many tens of billions of euros in public spending, partly financed by taxes on wealth and hikes for high earners, could be ruinous for France, already criticized by EU watchdogs for its debt.

A hung parliament is unknown territory for modern France and many people reacted with a mix of relief and apprehension.

“What pollsters and the press were telling us made me very nervous so it’s a huge relief. Big expectations as well,” said Nadine Dupuis, a 60-year-old legal secretary in Paris. “What’s going to happen? How are they going to govern this country?”

The political agreement between the left and center to block the National Rally was largely successful. Many voters decided that keeping the far right from power was more important than anything else, backing its opponents in the runoff, even if they weren’t from the political camp they usually support.

“Disappointed, disappointed,” said far-right supporter Luc Doumont, 66. “Well, happy to see our progression, because for the past few years we’ve been doing better.”

National Rally leader Le Pen, who was expected to make a fourth run for the French presidency in 2027, said the elections laid the groundwork for “the victory of tomorrow.”

Racism and antisemitism marred the electoral campaign, along with Russian disinformation campaigns, and more than 50 candidates reported being physically attacked — highly unusual for France.

Unlike other countries in Europe that are more accustomed to coalition governments, France doesn’t have a tradition of lawmakers from rival political camps coming together to form a majority. France is also more centralized than many other European countries, with many more decisions made in Paris.

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Lawyers for the suspected Boston cop killer Karen Read said Monday that jurors in her trial over the death of John O’Keefe had an “agreement” to find her not guilty before the judge declared a mistrial. 

They raised the issue in a motion to dismiss second-degree murder charges and leaving the scene of an accident, according to Boston 25, which published the filing.

Three of the 12 jurors sent “unsolicited communications” to the defense, purportedly “indicating in no uncertain terms that the jury had a firm 12-0 agreement that Ms. Read was not guilty of two of the three charges,” her lawyers wrote.

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The 44-year-old Read’s trial ended after five days of deliberations last week when Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial over what jurors described as their inability to come to a unanimous verdict, however. 

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“Despite our commitment, we are deeply divided by fundamental differences,” jurors wrote in a note to the judge. “No lack of understanding or effort. Consensus is not reachable.”

O’Keefe, Read’s boyfriend at the time, died during a snowstorm in January 2022 after Read allegedly hit him with her SUV and drove off, leaving him to die outside the home of another officer.

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A key conflict between the defense and prosecution was whether she hit him intentionally – or even hit him at all.

Read claimed that O’Keefe’s influential police colleagues set her up as the fall person.

Prosecutors, however, argued that the two had an alcohol-fueled argument on the night of his death.

“Despite our commitment to the duty entrusted in us, we find ourselves deeply divided by fundamental differences in our opinions and state of mind,” the jury wrote in its final note to the judge last Monday.

Prosecutors have said they plan to seek a new trial. Read’s lawyers countered with a constitutional double jeopardy argument, claiming that the jury had effectively rendered a not guilty verdict on at least two charges.

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The anti-Trump pundits on ABC’s “The View” were split on whether President Biden should abandon his re-election campaign, with Whoopi Goldberg suggesting she would support him regardless of his physical and mental capability.

“I don’t care if he’s pooped his pants. I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together. Show me he can’t do the job, and then I’ll say, OK. Maybe it’s time to go,” Goldberg said.

Goldberg, who was absent when “The View” first reacted to Biden’s debate performance, said he also had a “bad night” when he debated against Kamala Harris in the 2020 Democratic primaries but still went on to win the election. That was a much different occasion, when Harris attacked him for his past stances on “busing,” and she wound up dropping out before the Iowa caucuses. 

“I have poopy days all the time, all the time. I step in so much poo you can’t even imagine,” Goldberg said as the crowd chuckled.

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“Now, I’m not running the world, but I don’t know anybody who doesn’t step in stuff at some point. So, I’m just simply saying, yeah. There are two debates, and if he can’t do what he needs to do for the second debate, I’ll join any crew that says get rid of him,” she added.

Instead of criticizing Biden, “The View” co-host Ana Navarro said she was “pissed” because of “breathless reporting” regarding Biden’s ability to win re-election. A diehard Biden supporter, Navarro raged against those trying to get the president out of the race.

“It almost feels like media malpractice for them, trying to score the winning goal against Biden,” she said. “Who can have the gotcha moment? They’ve been splicing, dicing, cubing everything he says, putting it on a microscopic slide and looking at it under all sorts of magnifying glasses.”

Navarro urged the media to “give some clarity to their coverage,” suggesting that in their efforts to fact-check Biden, they, too, are making “mistakes.”

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin also commented on Biden’s commitment to staying in the race, noting that the “problem” is that most Americans will never get the chance to dine with the president at a fundraiser to determine his competency.

The 50 million people who turned into the debate, some of them swing and undecided voters, would determine the outcome of the election, she said.

Griffin also claimed that it was not just the White House that is at risk in November, but also the House and the Senate.

“I actually would argue, unpopular take, I think Kamala Harris would perform better because I think voters felt gaslit being told Biden is as sharp as a tack. I think a young, energetic Democrat running and saying they’re the top of the ticket actually will perform better head-to-head,” she said.

Sara Haines also chimed into the discussion, admitting that while she would vote for Biden if he were on the ballot, she does not believe he can beat former President Trump under the current circumstances. 

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Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., warned that President Biden did not assuage growing concerns about his fitness for office during his Friday ABC News interview, saying he looked “very frail” and was hurting Democrats by continuing to stay in the race.

“The polling is going in the opposite direction, and that’s what’s particularly concerning, and I can frankly see why. I don’t think it was a great interview. There were several things besides his very appearance that were concerning about what he said and how he said it. So I think we have to be honest with ourselves: the situation is not getting better. Frankly, it’s getting worse,” Quigley told CNN’s John Berman on Monday.

“Perceptions are absolutely ruling in things like this in a campaign. He looks very frail. His voice is very soft, it’s not robust,” he continued.

Quigley urged Biden to consider the impact staying in the race would have on downballot races.

“What I would stress to the president is that, ‘This isn’t just about you. It’s not about loyalty. It’s about being pragmatic.’ We have to be honest with ourselves,” he said.

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Quigley joins a growing list of Democrats who’ve called on Biden to step down following his rocky debate performance on June 27. Several top House Democrats held a private meeting Sunday to talk about the state of the presidential race, with the consensus reportedly agreeing that it was time for the president to step down.

Quigley told CNN he expects more of his Democratic peers to come out and express similar concerns.

“It’s going to be an amazing, unfortunately, horrible week, but I do think the numbers will grow,” he told Berman. “I don’t know how the president will react to that.”

The congressman called it a “painful” and “horrible situation” for Democrats.

He also criticized the Biden campaign’s treatment of polls coming out of the debate.

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“I think frankly what hurts him, is the denial the president seems to have about how the polling was going,” Quigley said, before highlighting eyebrow-raising moments from the president’s ABC interview that sparked concerns from fellow Democrats.

Despite facing mounting calls to drop out of the race, Biden has remained steadfast in his commitment to stay in the race and compete again against his GOP rival, former President Trump.

Monday morning, Biden called into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to insist once more that he was staying in the race, telling the hosts he was “not going anywhere.”

A memo obtained by Fox News Digital, which was sent to Hill offices by the Biden-Harris campaign, touted the president’s efforts to rally supporters in several swing states since the CNN debate.

The memo also highlighted a new Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll out Saturday that shows Biden trailing Trump across seven battleground states by just two points and leading Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin by five and three points, respectively.

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Shark sightings on the east and west coasts have been on the rise as Americans flock to beaches in hopes of cooling off.

In Hawaii, a tiger shark was recently spotted swimming 30 yards from the island’s break wall along Oahu’s South Shore, prompting warning signs to be posted by officials, Island News reported.

The Honolulu Emergency Services Department labeled the 12-foot shark “non-aggressive” after it was spotted around noon on June 27.

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Below, take a look at 12 unique facts about sharks, including the population, size and more, as some U.S. states see a spike in shark sightings and warnings of potential shark attacks.

There are more than 500 known species of shark in seas around the world, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Marine experts estimate that the total shark population is around one billion, according to A-Z Animals, an online animal encyclopedia.

“This means there’s a shark for every seven or eight humans,” the encyclopedia noted in July 2022. “They can be found in every ocean in the world and just about every oceanic habitat, including the open ocean, deep sea, coral reefs, shallows and beneath Arctic ice.”

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Whale sharks are the largest living shark species. The maximum size of whale sharks is not known, but could be as large as 65.6 feet, according to the World Wildlife Foundation.

The world’s largest whale shark on record measured 61.7 feet, according to a 2018 study from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute – a university in Florida – and the Maldives Whale Shark Research Program.

Dwarf lantern sharks are the smallest living shark species with an average size of 8 inches, according to the National Museum of Natural History.

The museum said the species is “smaller than a human hand” and has “only been observed a few times” in the northern part of South America at depths between 928 and 1,440 feet.

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Great white sharks have one of the strongest bites in the world. A 2008 experiment led by Australian paleontologist Stephen Wroe found that a 7,328-pound great white shark could exert about 4,095 pounds of force from its powerful jaws, according to a study published in the Journal of Zoology.

Most shark species have five rows of teeth, according to Delta Dental of Washington, a dental insurance provider.

In a Shark Week blog post, Delta Dental of Washington reported that some shark species “can have as many as 3,000 teeth at once” and “lose up to 100 per day.”

In 2023, there were a total of 69 unprovoked shark attacks worldwide, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Surfers and those participating in board sports accounted for 42% of incidents. Swimmers and waders accounted for 39%. Snorkelers/free divers accounted for 13%.

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From 2018-2022, the average number of unprovoked shark attacks on humans was 63, per the Florida Museum of Natural History. 

The chance of being killed by a shark is one in 3.7 million, according to National Geographic.

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The latest research suggests that around 100 million sharks may be killed annually, often targeted for their fins. This practice affects many different shark species, including whale sharks, according to the World Wildlife Foundation.

Sharks have existed for 450 million years, according to The Natural History Museum, London.

The museum said the finned animal appeared in fossil records before the existence of trees, and sharks have survived five mass extinctions.

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The since extinct megalodon is believed to be the largest shark species in world history. A 1909 jaw reconstruction put together by American paleontologist Bashford Dean estimated that megalodons could grow to be 98 feet long, according to Fossil Era, a fossil specimen provider.

In recent years, scientists have downgraded Dean’s estimate to 68.6 feet. Full skeletons have yet to be found, but megalodon teeth are often found around the world. 

Megalodons became extinct 2.6 million years ago during the end of the Pliocene era, according to The Natural History Museum, London.

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