• Sharks are fast swimmers.
• Their skeleton is made out of cartilage.
• Their skeleton is not made out of bone.
• Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth.
• The first sharks lived more than 300,000,000 years ago.

• Today, there are more than 300 types of sharks.
• There are over 465 known species of sharks.
• They are at, or near the top of their food chain.
• They breathe through their gill slits.
• All sharks have multiple rows of teeth.

• Shark skin is made up of scales.
• The upper side of a shark is dark, and the bottom side is white.
• The length of sharks go from 8 inches - 40 feet.
• Sharks are efficient predators.
• They have a highly developed sense of smell.

• They have very good eye sight.
• They even have a good sense of hearing.
• They can detect their prey´s smell from a great distance away.
• Sharks are amazing creatures.
• Sharks are also very mysterious.

• Sharks shed their teeth a lot.
• Most sharks will drown if they stop moving.
• Shark´s livers contain a lot of oil.
• Most sharks like to do their hunting solo.
• Sharks have 5 - 7 gills.

• They have a very large liver.
• Their jaws are not attached to their skulls.
• Sharks may have up to 3,000 teeth.
• Sharks have eight rigid fins.
• Most sharks are carnivores.

• They inhabit tropical and temperate oceanic waters.
• Some sharks can enter cold waters.
• Sharks eat plankton.
• Sharks also eat sea lions.
• Their diet is very varied.

• All sharks depend on their senses to survive.
• The megamouth shark is one of the rarest sharks.
• The cookiecutter shark can take ice cream shaped bites out of other fish.
• A female shark´s skin is very thick.
• A male shark´s skin is thin.

• The Greenland shark is one of the slowest fish ever.
• Shark teeth are covered in flouride.
• The dwarf shark is the smallest.
• The whale shark is the biggest.
• The whale shark is about the length of a bus.
• The dwarf shark is about the size of a men´s hand.

• A large meal can last a shark up to three months.
• The bull shark can live in fresh or salt water.
• Sharks attack more men than women.
• A shark may lose up to 30,000 teeth.
• A shark may grow up to 30,000 teeth.

• Sharks can hear a fish swimming from one mile away.
• People used to use shark teeth to create weapons.
• The Portugese shark can dive more than 1.5 miles down.
• Female sharks are usually larger than males.
• Two - thirds of the brain of a shark is dedicated to their smell.

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