Used to be that if you wanted to see a Great White shark, you had to venture south into the warm waters native to Discovery Channel camera crews. Now, as CBS News reports, with climate change throwing ocean temperatures out of whack, you can find them off the coast of Maine as an all-too-real and all-too-on-the-nose reminder that this year is the 50th anniversary of Jaws.

New data shows that Great White sightings in places like Maine and Nova Scotia have surged over the last few years, and it’s thanks to a buffet of seals in the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Canada.

According to Maine’s Department of Marine Resources, 93 individual great whites have been detected since 2020, with 19 showing up this year alone. Nova Scotia’s numbers are even more dramatic, with shark detections off Halifax i

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