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An elephant seal with round scars from a cookie-cutter shark lays on the beach.
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Cookie-cutter Shark

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How well could you eat with a saw on your face? If you were a sawshark, you couldn’t eat without one! Sawsharks are named for their long snouts, which have sharp teeth protruding from either side. They attack their prey by slashing these “saws” from
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Sawshark

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A whale shark swimming in the water.
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Tagging Along With Whale Sharks

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Shark Sizes: Whale Shark 46 feet, Basking Shark 33 feet, Great White Shark 23 feet, Megamouth Shark 15 feet, Nurse Shark 13 feet, Mako Shark 8 feet, Blacktip Reef Shark 6.5 feet, Bonnethead Shark 3.4 feet, Dwaf Lantern Shark 6 inches
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What is the Biggest Shark? A Chart Shows the Diversity of Shark Sizes

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The Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary site in Colombia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2006. The marine park surrounding Malpelo Island is the largest no-fishing zone in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, providing critical refuge for threatened and
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Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary, Colombia

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A bamboo shark grows in a thick egg case. Even within the egg case, the embryonic sharks can sense predators nearby and, in response, stop all gill movement and hold still to slip under the radar.
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Shark Embryo

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The Cook islands banknote
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Sharks and Humans: A Love-Hate Story

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a bull shark in a net
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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

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A large tiger shark swims above a thresher shark, epaulette shark, and zebra shark in the open ocean
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Shark Tail Fins Tell a Story

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a megamouth shark swims with a diver in the background
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The Massive Filter Feeding Shark You Ought to Know

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An oceanic whitetip shark swims near a biologist in the Bahamas.
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Spectacular Shark Pictures

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An underwater photo of sharks
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Why Are We So Afraid of Sharks? It Could Be the Background Music

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