Hungry Hungry Sharks
These predator sharks are referred to as the "trash cans of the sea" due to the amount of foreign objects found in their stomachs.
What are Tiger Sharks?
They are incredible hunters who will eat just about anything. A common item Tiger Sharks eat is license plates.
This kills up to 100 million sharks per year.
What are humans?
Sharks worldwide are targets of vast overfishing to supply the enormous demand for sharkfin soup, a delicacy served at high-level social and diplomatic functions in Asia.
This type of shark gets it's name from it's yellow color.
What is the lemon shark?
The shark's yellow coloring serves as a perfect camouflage when swimming over the sandy seafloor in its coastal habitat.
Bull sharks, White-tip reef sharks, Lemon sharks Hammerhead sharks and Blue sharks are born this way.
What is live birth?
Viviparous sharks give birth to live young. The number of pups in a litter ranges from 2-20 or more. Examples of viviparous sharks include the Bull sharks, Whitetip reef shark, Lemon shark, Blue shark, Mako, Porbeagle, Salmon shark, the Silvertip shark, and Hammerheads.
What is sleep?
Some sharks such as the nurse shark have spiracles that force water across their gills allowing for stationary rest. Sharks do not sleep like humans do, but instead have active and restful periods.
This hungry shark prays on just about every large and medium-sized creature by latching on to a host through suction, then eating the flesh by twisting so that it gouges out a round chunk of flesh.
What is the cookiecutter shark?
The cookiecutter shark has a silly name and a diminutive stature of 20 inches. Despite this, he is one vicious predator you would not want to mess with. Besides its parasitic feeding strategy, the cookiecutter shark has a bizarre cigar-shaped body and it is also extremely bioluminescent in order to convince its prey to come to it.
This type of shark can grow up to 40 feet long.
What is a whale shark?
Several specimens over 59 ft in length have been reported. The largest verified specimen was caught on November 11, 1949, near Baba Island, in Karachi, Pakistan. It was 41.5 ft long, weighed about 47,000 lb.
This is "color" shark is the most widely distributed species.
What is a blue shark?
Blue sharks are found all over the world, as far north as Norway and as far south as Chile, off the coasts of every continent except Antarctica.
The tiger shark, zebra shark and leopard sharks all have these marks on their bodies.
What are spots?
A zebra shark is actually called a leopard shark in certain places of the world.
Fewer than this even number of people are attacked by sharks worldwide each year.
What is 100?
In 2016 there were only 4 reported fatalities worldwide due to shark attacks. You are more likely to die from lightning, train crashes and fireworks. Sharks are not hunting humans. Most “attacks” on humans are mistakes due to poor water visibility or are inquisitive bites. This is why there are so many more bites than fatalities.
Tiger sharks littermates do this to each other in the womb.
What is cannibalize?
Tiger shark embryos will eat each other in utero with only a few remaining at the time of birth. Researchers believe it is due to a paternity struggle where babies of different fathers compete to be born.
Sharks have been around for a long time, about 220 million years before these other creatures.
What are dinosaurs?
Many of us tend to think of dinosaurs as dominating the prehistoric world. But dinosaurs didn’t appear until about 230 million years ago. Sharks have swum in the oceans for almost 450 million years.
This famous shark has a life span of up to 70 years.
What is the great white shark?
According to a 2014 study, the lifespan of great white sharks is estimated to be as long as 70 years or more, well above previous estimates, making it one of the longest lived cartilaginous fish currently known.
The dwarf lanternshark is not only the smallest shark at only 7.9 inches long, it gets it's name from being able to do this.
What is produce a light?
The lantern shark is capable of producing light from a distinctive array of photophores along its belly and fins. In darker water, the light attracts smaller animals, which the shark preys upon.
Some people believe sharks can regenerate this important part of its body.
What are the fins?
A finned shark thrown overboard will drown, bleed to death or be eaten by other sharks. Shark finning at sea enables fishing vessels to increase profitability and increase the number of sharks harvested, as they only have to store and transport the fins, by far the most profitable part of the shark; the shark meat is bulky to transport.Some countries have banned this practice and require the whole shark to be brought back to port before removing the fins.
While sharks are known for their carnivorous nature, some species of sharks eat passively on this.
What is plankton?
Planktivore sharks prefer plankton to meat. These include the whale shark, the basking shark and the megamouth shark.
Sharks will lose 20,000-30,000 of these in a life time.
What are teeth?
While most toothed animals only have one row of teeth, sharks have multiple. Some species of shark can have as many as eight visible rows of teeth at a time. However only the teeth in the front two rows are functional. The back rows are there as ready replacements, waiting for the tooth in front of it to inevitably fall out.
This type of shark recently was in the news for attacking a Massachusetts woman in the Bahamas while spear fishing.
What is the blacktip reef shark?
Although it has been reported from a depth of 246 ft, the blacktip reef shark is usually found in water only a few meters deep, and can often be seen swimming close to shore with its dorsal fin exposed.
Shark skeletons are made of this material.
What is cartilage?
Sharks do have skeletons, but they’re made of cartilage rather than bone. Cartilage is the flexible stuff in the tip of your nose.
A shark can be put into a trance by doing this.
What is Flipping it upside down?
When many of these sharks are upside down, they temporarily become unable to move or do anything at all. This is called tonic immobility.
The Thresher shark uses this to round up fish.
What is its tail?
When hunting sardines, the thresher accelerates towards a ball of fish and brakes sharply by twisting its large pectoral fins. It lowers its snout, pitches its whole body forward, and flexes the base of its tail. This slings the tail tip over its head, with an average speed of 30 miles per hour.
15 species of sharks are on this undesirable list.
What is the endangered species list?
Sharks are endangered due to fishing, chemical pollution, garbage and habitat loss.
An albino-like swell shark was discovered off the coast of Mexico in 2016 in a lovely shade of this color.
What is pink?
But it's unlike any swell shark experts have seen because it's pink. Normally, this species is a dark tan color with darker brown splotches all over its body. Given its unusual appearance, the alien-looking animal is likely leucistic, a condition similar to albinism.
This "big tooth" shark is an early ancestor of the great white shark.
What is Megalodon?
Regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators to have ever lived, fossil remains of megalodon suggest that this giant shark reached a length of 18 meters. Their large jaws could exert a bite force of up to 24,000 - 41,000 lbf.
Sharks, birds and mammals have a similar body ratio for this part.
What is the brain?
You might have heard that a shark's brain is the size of a walnut. While brain size varies by species, sharks generally have a brain-to-body weight ratio that is notably high for fish and even comparable to birds and mammals.