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Slate's Explainer: Can Sharks Really 'Smell' Blood?

NPR | By Andy Bowers
Published June 27, 2005 at 11:00 PM CDT

With two recent shark attacks in Florida, one of them fatal, Slate senior editor Andy Bowers wonders if sharks can really smell blood.

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Andy Bowers
Andy Bowers oversees Slate's collaboration with NPR?s daytime news magazine, Day to Day. He helps produce the work of Slate's writers for radio, and can also be heard on the program.