Save Shark Sunday

• Not all species of sharks are required to be in continuous motion to breathe
• A shark’s teeth are usually replaced every eight days.
• Some species of sharks shed about 30,000 teeth in their lifetime.
• As sharks never get cancer, their cartilage is being studied in the hope of developing anti-cancer drugs
• The Whale shark is considered the biggest fish in the world
• The Basking shark is the second largest, it is as long as 40 feet.
• The Pygmy shark is about 11 inches in length
• The Dwarf shark is as tiny as you hand, while some Whale sharks are as large as a bus
• The Dogfish sharks are so named, because they attack their prey like a pack of wild dogs
• Great white sharks can grow about 10 inches every year, thus, they grow to mature lengths of 12 to 14 feet
• Up to 100 MILLION sharks are killed each year for shark fin soup. By contrast, less than 50 people are killed by sharks each year!

Pic of the Day

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