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The average shark has 40-45 teeth and can have up to seven rows of replacement teeth. Because sharks lose a lot of teeth and grow them back quickly, they often go through more than 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
Bad to the Bone
Sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies. Their skeletons are made of cartilage.
Hammerhead sharks are born with soft heads so they won’t jam their mothers’ birth canals.
Not Your Mama’s Cookies
The Cookiecutter shark’s name stemmed from its unusual feeding method. The sharks attaches its mouth onto its victim and carves out a hunk of flesh, leaving a circular wound in its prey that resembles the hole a pastry cutter forms in dough
Survival of the Fittest
The first tiger shark pup to hatch inside its mother’s womb devours its unborn siblings until only two pups remain, one on each side of the womb.
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Sharks inhabited the earth 200 million years before the dinosaurs appeared and have changed only minimally during that time.
It’s a Man’s World
Despite the fact that an almost equal amount of men and women swim in the ocean, men account for nearly 90 percent of shark attack victims.
Stomachs of Steel
Shoes, chairs, boxes of nails, drums, entire bottles of wine, and the rear half of a horse are just some of the many bizarre objects that have been found in sharks’ stomachs over the years.
About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have occurred in less than six feet of water.
What are the Chances?
About 30 people die during shark attacks each year, which means you have a greater chance of being killed by bee stings or struck dead by lightning.
Putting Things in Perspective
Scientists study shark cartilage to research possible cures for cancer because sharks rarely ever develop cancer.
A Great White shark weighing 2,664 pounds and measuring almost 17 feet in length was the largest fish ever caught with a rod and reel.
Bull sharks can live in both salt and fresh water by regulating the substances in their blood.
Most sharks must swim constantly to force water through their mouths and over their gills because they lack the ability to pump water over their gills like the majority of fish.
From Miniature to Massive
Measuring only seven inches long, the dwarf lantern shark is the smallest shark in existence. On the other hand, the whale shark is the world’s largest shark. It can grow to be 50 feet long and weigh more than 40,000 pounds.
The Moses sole is one of the rare fish sharks cannot eat. When a shark bites into one, the fish releases a chemical that causes the shark release it. Scientists are currently attempting to recreate this chemical so they can use it to repel sharks from humans.
Straight as an Arrow
Native Americans in Florida used the teeth of Great White sharks as arrowheads.
All the Better to Hear You With
A little known fact about sharks is that they have an acute sense of hearing. Some sharks can hear prey from up to 3,000 feet away.
It’s All in Your Head
Sharks’ ears are located inside their heads.
Rumor Has It
An ancient shark called Carcharodon Megalodon (“rough tooth, big tooth”) had teeth measuring more than six inches long (the largest shark teeth ever found), jaws big enough to swallow an entire car, and a body the same length as tyrannosaurus rex. Some believe this shark may still exist in deep water.
Not Picky Eaters
The tiger shark is the second-most dangerous shark in the world and is sometimes referred to as the “garbage can of the sea” because it will eat anything. Remnants of a chicken coop filled with bones and feathers were once discovered in the stomach of a dead tiger shark.
Go Lay an Egg
Whale sharks lay the largest eggs of any animal on land or in the sea. The largest whale shark egg on record measured 14 inches in diameter.
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Some South Pacific islanders considered sharks to be gods and offered human sacrifices to them until as recently as the nineteenth century.
Shoes made from shark leather last four times longer than regular leather shoes.