Source: WWF UK
1. OVER 500 SPECIES OF sharks
143 of these are endangered, listed from vulnerable to critically endangered by the IUCN.
2. SHARE IS THE APEX TARGET
Many people have a few rows of teeth and can lose or replace thousands of teeth in their lifetime. As carnivores, sharks play an important role in the health of marine ecosystems – by eating fish, they help create balance in the food chain.
3. THEY MAY FAIL IN THE SIZE
From the smallest dwarf lantern shark (about the size of a human hand), to the largest species that can grow up to 12 meters long – the whale shark.
4. SHARE LIVING IN THE BEST OCEAN HABITS
They can be found in beautiful, tropical coral reefs, to the deep sea, and even under sea ice in the Arctic.
5. THEY CAN BE CLEAN AND CUTE
Goblin sharks can be bright pink and hammerhead sharks have hammer heads (duh!), which are known to be used to pin stingrays to the bottom of the sea! There’s even a cookie-cutter shark, named for the round “cookie” bites they leave.
6. THE MOST SHARED IS COLD BLOOD
For most sharks, their body temperature is cold, like the temperature of the water they swim in. But unlike most sharks, great whites are partly warm-blooded, allowing them to move faster when hunting.
7. WE RECEIVE SHARE IN UK
From basking sharks to blue sharks and even Greenland sharks. The basking shark is the UK’s largest fish (and the second largest in the world). It can be up to 11 meters long and weigh up to 7 tons – equivalent to the size and weight of a double-decker bus.
8. SHARE WITH FRIDAY SENSE
All sharks have a ‘sixth sense’ that helps them hunt during the final stages of an attack: the ‘amupllae of lorenzini’ is found on the snout of the shark and can sense the electric field generated by the animal in it. the surrounding water is emitted.
9. THEY BEEN FOR A LONG TIME
Sharks have existed for more than 400 million years – long before the dinosaurs. Since their skeletons are made of cartilage (like our noses) instead of bone, they don’t leave fossils like other animals do – but fossilized shark teeth have been found.
10. THEY ARE BELOW THREE
Many sharks are accidentally caught in fishing gear, as well as intentionally caught for their fins, which are a delicacy in Asia. Their ocean home is also in danger. From climate change warming water – affecting both habitat, prey and shifting shark populations – to plastic pollution, which can be entangled or ingested, especially by filters. .
