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GREAT WHITE SHARK LEMON SHARK SWELL SHARK Size/weight:11-21 feet, up to Size/weight: about 11 feet and Size/weight: up to 3 feet 6,500 lbs 420 pounds Special Features: Spotted with Special Features: Torpedo- Special Features: Outstanding blunt face. shaped body and powerful tail sense of smell makes up for Favorite Food: fish and snails makes it an incredible swimmer poor vision. Habitat: Continental: shelves in and jumper. 300 jagged teeth. Favorite Food: bony fish, rays Indian or Pacific Oceans, where Favorite Food: seals Habitat: No deeper than 260 they can hide. Habitat: All over the world, off feet. Often found in shallow Behavior: When threatened, the shore, in shallower waters waters. fills stomach with water or air Behavior: Smart hunter with Behavior: Very social and and doubles in size! This makes amazing sense of smell. Can gentle with humans. Often seen it look larger and it can’t be sense blood up to three miles in groups with structured pulled out of crevices. away. Electroreceptors sense a hierarchy, based on size and heartbeat up to two miles away. gender. Gives birth to live pups.

WHALE SHARK HAMMERHEAD SHARK GOBLIN SHARK Size/weight: Up to 66 feet, Size/weight: 3-20 feet, 5-1,000 Size/weight: 5-12 feet world’s biggest fish! lbs, depending on species Special Features: Pinkish-grey Special Features: Can turn its Special Features: Mallet-shaped to bubblegum pink with stomach inside out and push head covered with sensory translucent skin. Long, flat, things it can’t digest out of its organs and location of eyes overhanging snout and long mouth! make it a good hunter. sharp fang-like teeth. Favorite Food: plankton and Favorite Food: stingrays Favorite Food: rays and crabs small fish (no bigger than a Habitat: temperate and tropical Habitat: Sluggish and prefers shrimp). waters, near shore and offshore mid water level. Japan, Australia, Habitat: warm oceans and seas Behavior: Uses its wide head to South Africa. Behavior: Can give birth to 300 attack stingrays, pinning them Behavior: Protruding mouth live shark pups in one litter. against the sea floor. extends out of body and moves Swims along with mouth open independently to catch prey. sucking up its food.

SIXGILL SHARK THRESHER SHARK COOKIE CUTTER SHARK Size/weight: about 16 feet Size/weight: up to 20 feet Size/weight: up to 22 inches Special Features: Primitive Special Features: Long whip- long looking with only one dorsal fin like tail. Big eyes and small Special Features: Attaches to and bright green eyes. mouth. prey and takes out round Favorite Food: other sharks, Favorite Food: tuna and chunks, like a can-opener. skates, rays, large bony fish mackerels Favorite Food: marlin, tuna, Habitat: deep water--below 300 Habitat: Pacific and Indian sharks, seals, whales feet Oceans. Loves deep open water. Habitat: Temperate and tropical Behavior: Slow but strong Behavior: Uses huge tail to whip waters, often close to island. swimmer, strong predator, stays and kill prey. Athletic jumper, Behavior: Light emitted from on its own. Doesn’t like light. launching whole body out of the shark’s belly attracts fish, then it Stays in the dark depths in water and twisting and turning. attaches to prey using strong daytime and forages closer to sucking lips. surface at night.

SAND TIGER SHARK SPINY DOGFISH SHARK FRILLED SHARK Size/weight: 6-10 feet Size: males 2-3’, females 3-5’ Size/weight: 6 feet Special Features: Survives well Special Features: Two Special Features: 25 rows of in captivity—common in venomous spines at base of 300 triangular needle-sharp aquariums. Sharp teeth stick out dorsal fin. Strong jaws. Large teeth in all directions. eyes. Favorite Food: squid, cuttlefish, Favorite Food: small fish, squid, Favorite Food: bony fish and other sharks crustaceans other sharks Habitat: Deep sea shark at 600- Habitat: shorelines Habitat: Most populace shark in 3,000 feet Behavior: Only shark known to the world. Found off every Behavior: May capture prey, by come to the surface and gulp air, continent except Antarctica bending body and lunging like a which it stores in its stomach Behavior: If attacked, will arch snake. and uses to float in the water. its back and stick predator with venomous spine.