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A 3,000-year-old cold case could be the earliest known victim of a shark attack. The skeleton, found in Japan, is covered in unusually deep cut marks. It looks like the victim of a frenzied samurai sword attack, but could his wounds have been caused by a shark? If so, which species of shark is the prime suspect? Shark experts Alyssa White, Gavin Naylor, Kirin Sekito and Masato Nakatsukasa investigate.
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00:00Hello there.
00:02We're here to film with the world's most distinctive shark.
00:06The Hammerhead.
00:08The problem with seeing one shark,
00:11now I just want to see more.
00:13Shark!
00:16A lot of sharks here.
00:18Hammer, hammer!
00:19You never know what you're going to encounter.
00:20Holy smokes!
00:23Hammerhead Sharks Up Close with Bertie Gregory
00:25kicks off two weeks of Shark Fest
00:26starting Sunday July 5th at 9 on
00:28National Geographic.
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