Shark Facts
• Don’t worry about being attacked by a Shark - Facts show you are more apt to be struck by lightning.
• Shark facts prove that shark attacks kill on average of 10 people per year.
• 355 kinds of sharks have been identified.
• Humans can be attacked by only three kinds of sharks.
• Bees kill more people every year than sharks.
• Cartilage not bone makes up the structural skeleton of a shark.
• Earth had sharks living on it before dinosaurs.
• Sharks like to eat other sharks.
• Shark facts reveal that 20 to 100 million sharks are killed every year by human beings.
• No other creature has more powerful jaws than a shark.
• Sharks have back-up teeth to replace worn ones.
• Not all sharks are cold-blooded.
• Tiger sharks eat garbage, even tin cans.
• Sharks have extra teeth with which they can replace worn ones.
• Some sharks use between 20,000 and 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• The Whale Shark is the biggest shark in the world.
• Whale Sharks are not dangerous to humans.
• Pregnant sharks give birth to pups.
• Sharks have large brains, like mammals.
• Sharks have the keenest sense of smell with 2/3rds of their brain devoted to it.
• Some sharks have to be over twenty years old to breed.
• Sharks will sink if they stop moving.
• Not all sharks live in the ocean--some live in rivers.
• Some baby sharks eat other baby sharks while still in the womb.
• The Great White Shark is on the Endangered Species List in some locations.
• The largest shark is almost 40 feet long.
• Sharks can go for long periods of time without eating.
• The Great White Shark doesn’t have to eat for three months.
• One of the most scary shark facts is that some sharks can bite with a force of 42,000 pounds per square inch, while human males only bite with the force of 150 pounds per square inch.
• Feeding frenzies by sharks are rare.
• Denticles is a name for the tooth-like outer skin of a shark.
• Sharks can see in color.
• Some sharks can swim at a speeds up to 23 mph.
• Sharks would rather eat another fish than a human being.
• Some sharks produce offspring in the same humans by giving birth.
• Some sharks produce baby sharks by laying eggs.
• Thousands of years ago 60% of ocean fish were sharks.
• Today, sharks make up only 3% of the fish in the ocean.
• The majority of human shark attacks are by Great White Sharks.
• Many sharks eat shellfish.
• The Whale Shark, the largest of all fish, eats plankton.
• Sharks have the type of brain that makes them trainable.
• Sharks are at the top of their food chain just like humans, who are at the top of theirs.
• Many sharks are endangered because of the human trade in shark’s skin and teeth.