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DNA tests confirm shark that bit California swimmer was juvenile white shark
A shark that bit a swimmer in Del Mar last month, leaving the man hospitalized with significant wounds, was a juvenile white shark, likely around 9 feet long and 6 to 8 years old. That determination came from analyzing DNA left on a wetsuit worn by the …