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Sharks are among the most exciting and most misunderstood creatures on Earth. However, rulings have led to misunderstandings about This sea creature. 6 Learn interesting facts about sharks you've probably never known.

1. Shark Origins

These creatures sea water are still closely related to fish and sharks the oldest dating back 400 million years, well before the era dinosaurs. It also makes the sharks one of the oldest invertebrate creatures in the world.

2. Scarcity of Shark Attacks

Despite shark attacks have become sensational news stories, the reality is shark attacks are rare. However, fear of being attacked by a shark is common among beachgoers. The biggest factor of influence for fear of shark attacks dating back to one of the most memorable films of film history. Directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1975, Jaws created a huge fear of sharks and raise the mystique of shark attack on a random humans. In fact, shark attacks on humans amount to less than a hundred a year and less than 5 were fatal.

3. The reasons Shark Attacks

Interestingly enough, the shark attacks increase during certain phases of the moon. For creatures of the sea, the moon determines the migration patterns. Naturally, when the ocean tides cause sharks to come into closer contact with is a man, their greater opportunity for shark attack. For those worried about shark attacks, death is more likely to produce bees drowning, lighting, wasps and snakes than a shark attack.

There are very few species of shark involved in a significant proportion of attacks on humans. The best known is the great white shark. The great white shark can grow to 20 feet long and the shark is made famous by Jaws. Many of these attacks are believed to be accidental, with the shark simply taking a piece of identifying what is in the water because Sharks do not have hands they use their mouth. However, seals are their preferred food source and most of the time after taking a first bite, the shark let go its prey of man.

4. How Sharks survive in water

Unlike most fish, sharks are to continue to go in the water because they have no swim bladder. Without constant movement, sharks are not able to pump water through their gills and can sink to the bottom of the ocean and breathing in bulk. Sharks are also considered some of the most skilled hunters Ocean. Many species of sharks can smell one drop of blood in the water and can actually hear the fish miles away. The Most sharks also do not sleep.

5. Shark Variety

When most people think of sharks, they probably think of sharks to hick giant teeth. However, the size of sharks vary considerably more than half of all sharks are under 3 feet long. Some species of sharks continue to be discovered and currently more than 350 species of sharks have been identified. Sharks live primarily in salt water through a few species can live in freshwater. Different varieties of sharks live in temperate, tropical, coastal and deep waters.

6. Large and small creatures

The largest species of shark is the whale shark, which can reach 60 feet long and can weigh over 13 tonnes. The smallest shark in the world is the dwarf lantern shark grows only about 8 inches long and lives in deep waters. The dwarf lantern is a time of an inch smaller than the second smallest shark, the pygmy shark.

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