A Publication of Alpha Omega Institute does have very (91 m) below the surface to large teeth when you find food. Once in awhile compare them to the rest they will rise all the way of the body! The shark I to the top.3 am talking about is the “As they swim cookiecutter shark. They towards the surface, the are named that because of cookiecutters’ undersides KIDS THINK the cookie-shaped mark begin to glow a bright their bite leaves on the green color! They are AND bodies of their prey. bioluminescent, which TOO! “There is the means they can make BELIEVE smalltooth cookiecutter their own light, kind of November-December 2016 shark (simply known like fireflies. On their as the cookiecutter Suction and bellies they have special COOKIECUTTER SHARK shark) and the largetooth Large Lower Teeth light-making cells by Lanny and Marilyn Johnson cookiecutter shark. Both called ‘’. “Dad, we saw your friend Mr. Pierson at the are the same size, but the By Karsten Hartel: https://commons. What’s really creepy dentist today. While we were waiting, he began largetooth cookiecutter has wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7935465 is the cookiecutters’ telling Mom and me of a shark he had been much larger teeth. The photophores can emit a reading about. It sounded like a way cool shark, cookiecutter has a long, thin, cigar-shaped glow up to 3 hours after they die! Some scientists so Mom took me to the library after the dentist. brown body and a dark band around its gills think cookiecutters use this glow to blend in I looked into it and (leading some with the moonlight and the dark band around its took notes so that I Cookiecutter Shark people to call it throat acts as a lure to help draw their prey up could write a paper the cigar shark). from the bottom.4, 5 about it for a school Near the front of “When large fish or marine mammals get project.” the head it has close, cookiecutter quickly fastens onto “So tell us large, oval, green their prey using their thick lips and about this ‘way cool eyes, a short, which act as a shark’.” cone-shaped suction cup. Cookiecutter Teeth “First of all, can snout and a Then, they sink you guess what NOAA Observer Project: https://commons. rounded mouth in their teeth! shark this is?” wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5547616 with large, thick The top jaw has Mary asked. ”It is suction lips,” 30 - 37 tiny teeth one of the smallest sharks; the males grow to Mary explained.2 that are narrow a maximum of 16.5 inches (42 cm) long, while “The cookiecutter lives in the warm, deep and straight like females grow up to 22 inches (56 cm). Yet, this waters around islands near the Equator in the needles. The shark has the largest teeth of all the sharks. Any Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. When I say they bottom jaw has guesses?” 1 live in deep water, I mean deep! They spend the 25 - 31 teeth that “You have me stumped, Mary. How can a day at the depth of 3,200 feet (975 m).” Looking are all hooked small shark have teeth bigger than a great white at her brother, Mary joked, “Billy, that’s like 11 together. The shark, which can grow to over 20 feet (6.10 m) football fields long! And they have even been bottom teeth are long?” Mr. Jones asked. found as deep as 2.3 miles (3.7 km). At night larger and wider JSUBiology CCBY 2.0 Mary giggled and answered, “Well, this they rise into shallower waters about 300 feet than the top teeth and are straight and pointed like fence tips. Find the things from the WORD LIST found in the picture below. WORD LIST Once the cookiecutter sinks in its teeth, it spins its body and removes a plug of flesh 2 inches (5 cm) FOR ANSWERS GO TO: http:// · Smiley Face Man www.discovercreation.org/kids/ across and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) deep. This leaves · False Teeth behind a circular cookie-cutter bite mark (some NewsletterAnswers.htm · 2 Puzzle Pieces bites look like ice cream scoops)! 6,7,8,9,10 · Gold Clothes Pin “They have been known to feed on larger · 4 Dog Tags , including , stingrays, seals, · Pocket Knife whales, dolphins, and even great white sharks! · Utility Knife Cookiecutter sharks are considered a parasite · AAA Battery because they feed off their prey but usually don’t · Skeleton Key kill them. Living sea creatures are not the only · Tweezers things cookiecutter sharks bite into. They have · 2 Padlocks used their sharp, strong teeth to bite out chunks of rubber-coated gear, telephone · Red Whistle lines, and research equipment. They have even · 2 Crosses taken hunks out of humans. No one has ever died · Green Frog from a cookiecutter bite but it must have really · Comb hurt!11, 12 · Seashell “Like other sharks,” concluded Mary, “the · Rubber Band cookiecutter loses its teeth. Instead of growing · Eyedropper them back one at a time however, the cookiecutter · Tabasco Sauce loses the whole bottom row of teeth, swallows · Yellow Dinosaur them, and then a whole new row grows back in at · American Flag once.”13 · Harmonica “Wow,” exclaimed Mr. Jones. “The cookiecutter shark really is a ‘way cool shark’. · Red Frog All of their amazing designs definitely point to · Hippopotamus an Intelligent Designer, which we believe is God. · Cork REFERENCES Thank you for sharing this incredible little shark 1 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57124/14-facts-about-cookiecutter-shark · Bow Tie with us, Mary.” 2 http://ipfactly.com/?s=cookiecutter+shark · Green Dinosaur 3 http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/cookiecutter_shark_ facts/1783/ · Ground Hog 4 http://ipfactly.com/?s=cookiecutter+shark Cookiecutter Bite Marks on 5 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57124/14-facts-about-cookiecutter-shark 6 Ibid From all of us at Alpha Omega Institute, 7 http://ipfactly.com/?s=cookiecutter+shark wishing all of of you a Blessed Christmas! 8 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57124/14-facts-about-cookiecutter-shark 9 http://ipfactly.com/?s=cookiecutter+shark 10 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57124/14-facts-about-cookiecutter-shark “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou 11 Ibid shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his 12 http://mentalfloss.com/article/57124/14-facts-about-cookiecutter-shark 13 http://ipfactly.com/?s=cookiecutter+shark people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21

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