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Jorgensen says shark photo-bomb probably a dolphin

Fellow(s): Sal Jorgensen

An alleged shark that appeared in a Manhattan Beach, California, wave on Friday [December 27, 2013] as two children played in the water nearby was a dolphin, according to experts.

A local mother was taking a picture of her 12-year-old son and a friend just as they were about to catch a wave when the sea creature appeared in the break.

The ‘photobomb’ story went viral on Sunday and Monday, as people argued over whether it was a shark or a dolphin.

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And Salvador Jorgensen, a great white shark expert from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, told Grind TV that the tail in the picture from the recent shark scare ‘doesn’t really look like a shark tail more than, say, a dolphin sideways in the wave’.

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