Author: Gerardo Gonzalez

Sharks do not have bones. They are a special type of fish known as “elasmobranchs”, which translates into fish made of cartilaginous tissues—the clear gristly stuff that your ears and nose tip are made of. This category also includes rays, sawfish, and skates. What makes a shark different? Sharks are fish. They live in water, […]

Great White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) became the ocean’s top hunters through the evolution of supremely-adapted senses and physiology. SMELL The most acute sense of the Great White Shark is smell. Do sharks have good sense? Sharks have six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism. These finely honed senses, along with a […]

Acoustic Senses Sharks have only an inner ear, which consists of three chambers and an ear stone called an otolith. A shark’s inner ear detects sound, acceleration, and gravity. Sharks use sound to locate food. Sound is often the first sense a shark relies on to detect prey. How do sharks use their sense of […]

Sharks limit the abundance of their prey, which then affects the prey of those animals, and so on throughout the food web. Because sharks directly or indirectly affect all levels of the food web, they help to maintain structure in healthy ocean ecosystems. Can we live without sharks? If you’re not a big fan of […]

Sharks even have a seventh sense, allowing detection of the minute electric fields given off by living animals, inanimate objects, and water passing through the earth’s magnetic field. This sense is used to detect prey at very short distances, even when completely buried under sand. What 6th sense Do sharks have? ampullae of LorenziniA Shark’s […]

Sharks and ray-like skates have a sixth sense – they can detect the electrical fields produced by other living organisms, which can come in handy for homing in on prey obscured by the dark ocean or sandy seafloor. How does shark use their sixth sense? A Shark’s Sixth Sense They are specialized electroreceptor organs that […]

It’s no surprise that music helps dictate how an audience feels while watching a film. But in some cases, musical choices can dictate much more. A recent study from Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that the background music played over documentary shark footage could affect a viewer’s perception of sharks. Are sharks affected by sound? […]

Great White Shark Facts Overview Habitat: Coastal waters Location: Almost everywhere, high concentration in USA, South Africa, Japan, Oceania, Chile and the Mediterranean Lifespan: 70 years Size: Females: 4.6-5m, Males: 3.4-4.1m Weight: 520 – 1,100 kg Where do great white sharks appear? Great white sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters which have […]

This line, which is found in all fish, is made of cells that can perceive vibrations in the water. Sharks can detect both the direction and amount of movement made by prey, even from as far as 820 feet (250 meters) away. Are great white sharks blind? Great White Sharks don’t have eyelids, but they […]

Yes, sharks can see. However, tapetum lucidum is a special tissue present in sharks that makes it particularly adept at seeing under water. This tissue of mirrored crystals enables the animal to contract and dilate its pupil in much the same way as humans are able to. Other bony fish are not capable of this. […]

The list of animals that eat great sharks isn’t very large, however, they are hunted by one competing predator that’s proven quite adept at eating great whites: Killer Whales (Orcas) Other Great White Sharks. Humans. What animal eats sharks? OrcasThough the great white is considered the top marine predator, orcas may actually rule the oceans, […]

Sharks aren’t afraid of the dark.” But when the sun sets and his friends begin telling spooky stories, Clark’s rhyme sounds quiet and small and not brave at all. In this empowering tale about conquering nighttime fears, Clark the Shark learns how friendship can help light the way through the dark. Do sharks ever attack […]

Great white sharks can swim at speeds of 25 km/hr (16 mph) for short bursts and to depths of 1,200 m (3,900 ft). The great white shark is an apex predator, as it has no known natural predators other than, on very rare occasions, the orca. What creature eats great white sharks? Killer whalesKiller whales […]

Orcas. It’s pretty much common wisdom that the top predatortop predatorAn apex predator, also known as a top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Apex_predator What animal scares a shark? Apex Prey. There are one species of dolphins in particular that scare sharks the […]

ISAF confirmed 73 unprovoked shark bites on humans and 39 provoked bites. “Unprovoked bites” are defined as incidents in which a bite on a live human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat with no human provocation of the shark. U.S. leads world in number of unprovoked bites. Country Total Fatal Worldwide 73 9 How many […]

The fact that white sharks flourish with poison in their veins is one of the “tricks” the species has used to survive millions of years, OCEARCH says. “White sharks are incredibly tolerant to what would essentially be poison to other species,” said the report. Are sharks immune to stingrays? 5. Great hammerhead sharks have been […]