The great white shark is a majestic and terrifying animal, as you may have seen in videos, but it has also been mercilessly hunted by heartless creeps who hate nature. The great white is more than a sea monster, of course: It is a crucial part of the ocean environment, acting as the grim reaper for sad and sickly sea critters who would otherwise require entitlements to live out their old age.

As of February, the majestic killing machine of the deep is protected by California's Endangered Species Act. Sports fishing of the sharks has been illegal since 1994, but a lot of juvenile great whites get caught [...]

Beachgoer: "It's going to kill us. It's gonna kill you and then it's gonna kill me. He's gonna kill us."

Surfer: "Just be glad it's all right."

Beachgoer: "It's gonna jump."

Surfer: "Make up your mind. Is it going to jump, or is it gonna kill us?

Beachgoer: "First it's gonna jump. And then it's gonna kill us."

The burning object that fell from the sky, through a surf board and onto a Tel Aviv beach Saturday is not a meteorite, as was originally thought. "It is plastic or silicon," said Dr. Diana Laufer, of the Geophysics and Planetary Sciences Department of Tel Aviv University, who examined the object after police brought it to her house. (Which seems kind of odd, but anyway…) "Perhaps it is part of an airplane or a satellite, or it's part of a flare. I do not know. But it certainly is not from space." Whatever it was, it was very, very hot. I asked an Israeli friend to translate [...]