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Mexican Biologist Explains Why Sharks Bite Humans

“What scared me the most was that if I didn’t survive that incident, people were going to think I was ‘attacked’ by a shark,” said Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a Mexican marine biologist passionate about the study of sharks, who in September 2025 was bitten on the face by a shark, an event that lasted a few seconds and almost cost him his life. However, what for many could have been the most traumatic event of their lives, for him, was just “a little…
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“What scared me the most was that if I didn’t survive that incident, people were going to think I was ‘attacked’ by a shark,” said Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a Mexican marine biologist passionate about the study of sharks, who in September 2025 was bitten on the face by a shark, an event that lasted a few seconds and almost cost him his life. However, what for many could have been the most traumatic event of their lives, for him, was just “a little…

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Periódico Expreso - Más Cerca de Ti broke the news on Saturday, May 9, 2026.
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