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- What is the baddest shark ever?
- What is the species name for sharks?
- What is the smallest shark?
- Is the Megalodon still alive?
- Is the megalodon real?
- What is the rarest shark?
- What is the deepest shark?
- Is dog fish a shark?
- What is a small shark called?
What is the baddest shark ever?
1. Unsurprisingly, the king of the sharks and frequent guest star of nightmares, the great white shark is the most dangerous, with a recorded 314 unprovoked attacks on humans.
What is the species name for sharks?
Shark Classification and Scientific Name
These fishes go by the scientific name Selachimorpha. These fishes belong to the kingdom Animalia and phylum Chordata. Their class is on Chondrichthyes. Selachimorpha comes from a combination of Ancient Greek words – sélakhos and the suffix -morpha.
What is the smallest shark?
The smallest shark, a dwarf lantern shark (Etmopterus perryi) is smaller than a human hand. It's rarely seen and little is known about it, having only been observed a few times off the northern tip of South America at depths between 283–439 meters (928–1,440 feet).
Is the Megalodon still alive?
Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago. Go to the Megalodon Shark Page to learn the real facts about the largest shark to ever live, including the actual research about it's extinction.
Is the megalodon real?
The biggest shark in the world
For the next 13 million years the enormous shark dominated the oceans until becoming extinct just 3.6 million years ago. O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist. ... In fact, the word megalodon simply means 'large tooth'.
What is the rarest shark?
The speartooth shark (Glyphis glyphis) is one of the rarest shark species on earth, found only in tropical rivers in New Guinea and northern Australia. The speartooth shark is not targeted by fisheries for its meat or fins, but it may be accidentally caught in fishing nets as by-catch.
What is the deepest shark?
The goblin shark is a fascinating species that lives in the open ocean from near the surface down to depths of at least 4265 feet (1300 m). Like many species with a deep-sea affinity, scientists believe goblin sharks only come near the surface at night and spend most of their lives in the dark.
Is dog fish a shark?
However, the dogfish is a member of the shark family and does provide a dependable catch on days when little else is biting, especially as dogfish feed just as well in bright sunlight as they do at night.
What is a small shark called?
Synonyms, crossword answers and other related words for SMALL SHARK [dogfish]
