Fun Facts About Sharks Because Who Doesn’t Love Fun Facts

Have you read Shark Fun Facts You Never Knew? Cause this is part two.

• Most sharks are social and found in large schools.
• Baby sharks are born with a complete set of teeth.
• The Dwarf Lantern Shark is smaller than a human hand!
• A blue shark can give birth to more than 100 baby sharks at once.
• Shark teeth don’t have roots which means they easily fall out while a shark eats.
• Shark attacks are rare with only about 5-10 shark attacks on humans per year.
• There are over 500 different types of sharks.
• Sharks can smell one single drop of blood from up to a third of a mile away.
• Overfishing for shark fins is the biggest threat to shark populations.
• You can help save coral reefs and shark habitats by reducing your plastic use, reusing when you can and recycling.
• Sharks live in oceans around the world, in both shallow and deeo water of all temperatures and from the tropical coral reefs to the Artic sea ice.
• Great white sharks can be up to 20 feet long.
• Shark skin feels like sandpaper, or more specifically tiny, specialized teeth called dermal denticles or skin teeth.
• Sharks meet together for breeding or hunting.
• When a great white shark is born, it immediately swims away from its mother. Their mother may see them as prey and eat it.
• Sharks eyes are adapted to see best in dark water and at night.
• A bull shark has one of the highest bite forces of any fish, even the great white shark.
• Each whale shark’s spot pattern is as unique as a fingerprint.
• Sharks are older than trees!
• The bull shark is the shark in the shark attack on the Jersey Shore inspired Hollywood movie “Jaws.”
• Most sharks have eyes placed on the sides of their heads and not their front, which affects their sight a bit.
• Sharks are buoyant in part because cartilage is lighter than bones and their bodies are made out of cartilage.
• Sharks jaws aren’t attached to their skull and move separately as the upper and lower jaws are independent. This helps the shark lift their head and thrust their mouth forward to bite its prey.
• The spiny dogfish and whale shark are two species of sharks that may live over 100 years.
• Yes, sharks outlived the dinosaurs.
• Whale sharks can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds.
• Sharks truly have a sixth sense. They can sense electricity, which means they can find prey hiding under sand or mud even if they can’t see it or smell it or hear it. They do this through the small black spots near their nose, eyes and mouth. They are special electroreceptor organs.
• Shark babies are on their own from the start.
• A shark in a large swimming pool would be able to smell a single drop of blood in the water.
• The slowest moving fish ever recorded is the Greenland Shark, at only about .8 miles per hour.
• The dorsal fin on a shark helps give it stability and helps it to swim straight.
• Becuase short fin mako sharks are such fast swimmers, they can hunt swordfish, who are also very fast.
• Sharks lose at least one tooth per week.
• Great white sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
• Some sharks are born from eggs and some are born live.
• A shark’s tooth will grow back in one day.
• Greenland sharks can live to be over 400 years old.
• Many baby sharks do not survive their first year.
• Sharks only have inner ears but also have great hearing.
• Humans are more of a danger to sharks than vice versa.

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