Top Ten Facts About Sharks
The Top Ten
1 Sharks kill 12 people per year while people kill 11,417 sharks per hour
This is why we should save the sharks. Who cares if they're scary. I mean yeah they're dangerous but we shouldn't kill all of them just because they're scary. Sharks are a part of this world to humans!
Yeah. Sharks aren't a threat to us, WE are a threat to them
Most of these facts just blew my mind!
Humans are way more dangerous then.
2 The shortfin mako shark can accelerate faster than a Porsche
3 Sharks have an astounding sense of smell, so powerful that they can detect a single drop of blood in an Olympic-sized pool
4 As soon as tiger shark embryos develop teeth, they attack and eat each other in the womb
5 There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years
They've also discovered a one eyed cyclops shark in Mexico.
6 Whale sharks can live up to 100 years
7 New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide
Wow New Yorkers are jerks. Remind me never to go to New York.
What the heck New York?
8 It is believed that sharks first appeared 420 million years ago
They appeared before the dinosaurs. They even appeared before the earth's first trees!
9 You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than from a shark attack
10 Sharks will sink if they stop swimming
The Contenders
11 A One Eyed Cyclops Shark was found in Mexico
12 A shark can grow and lose up to 30,000 teeth in a lifetime
13 Sharks have appeared before the earth's first dinosaurs and even the earth's first trees
14 A Great White Shark can weigh as much As 15 Gorillas.
15 Sharks have zero bones
There skeletons are instead made of cartilage.
16 A shark can detect a fish's heartbeat up to 3 feet (0.9) away.
17 A shark can live up to 6 weeks without eating
18 Certain sharks walk on their fins underwater
19 Sharks have eight senses
20 Sharks can't blink
21 Some Blacktip Reef Sharks near Australia eat sea snakes
22 The shark that played the Great White Shark in Jaws was named "Bruce" in real life
23 Native Americans used to believe that they were watched over by protective animal spirits known as aumakua. Aumakua take many forms, including hammerhead sharks
24 The oldest known great white fossils are about 16 million years old. The oldest human remains that have so far been discovered are just 1.3 million years old
25 They may be slow swimmers, but sand tiger sharks have a clever technique for catching prey. They sometimes use their tails like whips, to herd fish into smaller areas
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