#shark fact

[pennylanefics]

oh the other day i learned nurse sharks literally roll over on their backs like dogs to scratch themselves and it was the cutest thing ever

[sharkie-malarkie]

I want to be ur friend so bad but I am AWKWARDDDDD.

Anyways, lesser known facts about great whites? If not, cookie cutter shark my beloved

DWWW IM SO AWKWARD TOO BUT ID LOVE LOVE LOVE TO BE YOUR FRIEND PLSSS SEND ME A MESSAGE OR SMTH (if ur comfortable obvi 😭) AAAAH

although most sharks are cold-blooded, great whites are actually warm blooded! this means they can regulate their own body temperature!!

2. greats whites eyes are GLOW IN THE DARKKKK. they have a layer of reflective cells behind the retina which allows them to see better in the dark. COULD THEY GET ANY COOLER???

3. another biological feature of great whites is their highly toxic blood. research has shown that the levels of arsenic and mercury in their blood are so high that it would kill most animals. great whites however, seem to be adapted to this toxicity and are unharmed by it.

[epic-arc]

Shark Jaune au Short Number 1:BABIES!

Weiss would be in the bedroom with jaune lying beside her and the two would be watching some programs on tv until they stopped and a channel that was showing a documentary about sharks.

Jaune: Oh let's see I love this type of documentary!

She would look at jaune's face and notice an expression of animation and blush with the boy's expression and would hug his arm and watch the documentary.

Narrator: Great white sharks gestate their pups for a year before giving birth – that's longer than humans. Between 2 to 12 babies are born at a time. Great whites can live up to 60 years, maybe more.

The two listen to this and jaune blushes and looks at weiss he would be red in the face because he imagined a future where she and jaune were married and had 3 sons and 3 daughters each with their own characteristics and jaune pokes weiss on her shoulder a waking up from her dream.

Jaune: Weiss are you okay? You seem a little distracted..

Weiss: Ah it's okay jaune don't worry silly let's go back to watching the documentary.

He would smile and go back to watch and weiss would hug jaune's arm but she would be blushing and smiling a lot while watching the documentary.

Weiss(Mind):We are going to have such beautiful and cutes babies!

(au made by @rwby-encrusted-blog)

[the-animal-kingdom]

Did you know, that sharks don’t have bones? Instead they have a soft material called cartilage, which is a tough, stretchy tissue, that humans also have in their ears and tips of their noses. It is theorised that this is because it better suits their environment and lifestyle; it would be easier to move around in the water and therefore they will also be a lot faster than regular, bony fish.

This is true for every shark, from the great white to the whale shark etc.

[carciinogen]

Fun fact: when male sharks get big enough, they turn into females

Shark Fact Fridayz

Edit: Updating this to say that the article was actually about parrotfish :( (still awesome though)

[charistim]

this is me asking about sharks. i love sharks and i want to absorb more info on them. pls tell me your favourite shark fact

OMG HI THIS IS SO LATE!!! MY FAVE SHARK FACT IS THAT GREAT WHITES CAN JUMP UP TO TEN FEET OUT OF THE WATER TO CATCH PREY!!!!! great whites tend to attack from below since their darker backside makes for good camouflage! i really appreciate u asking abt sharks ily /p

[feelingautistic]

Exciting news for the cute shark lovers of the world! We finally have a recorded sighting of a baby great white shark, likely only a few hours old.

The question of where great white sharks give birth still remains a mystery to this day but this footage may suggest the coasts of California, where the footage was taken, are a site where these sharks give birth.

[mcnostril]

Important monday fact.

[surpriseimbored]

Fun fact of the day

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. this is NOT A DRILL! two great white sharks have become best friends!! their names are simon and jekyll and they've travelled together for over 4,000 miles. this is a huge discovery, because great white sharks are usually solitary creatures!

an important note is that these sharks aren't swimming side by side, and are usually a couple kilometres off from each other - but their trackers kept pinging in the same part of the ocean at the same time. scientists think they might be brothers, or following a previously unknown migratory path.

business insider | cbc

(edited 08/10/23 to fix spelling of jekyll's name)

[pennylanefics]

tonight i learned lemon sharks, when juveniles, will stick to groups and have little shark besties for protection and just bc they're social and i think that's the cutest fucking thing ever. just tiny little lemon sharks, swimming around the mangroves of the bahamas with their buddies 🥹

[sharkie-malarkie]

10 facts about cookie cutter sharks :D

DYK… (part 3??)

cookiecutter sharks are named for the way it cuts a wound in whales, dolphins, seals and large fish. It grips the sides of its prey with fierce jaws and gouges out a circular, cookie-shaped piece of flesh.

cookiecutter sharks lose several sets of teeth throughout their lifetimes. this process ensures that they always have sharp, healthy teeth capable of feeding by their preferred strategy. unlike other species, though, cookiecutter sharks apparently purposely swallow the teeth that they lose.

cookiecutter sharks have an elongated, cigar-shaped body with a short, bulbously rounded snout. the large, oval, green eyes are placed forward on the head, enough to allow the shark to have binocular vision.

cookiecutter sharks are slow swimmers. using vertical migration, these sharks will migrate to the surface at night in order to hunt prey. during the day the sharks will return back to the deep ocean in order to escape predators. 

In march 2009, maui resident Mike Spalding was bitten by a cookie cutter shark while swimming across Alenuihaha Channel.

cookiecutter sharks are thought to use the bioluminescent photophores on their belly for counterillumination. counterillumination is like camouflage for these sharks: the light they emit blends in well with the slightly lighter water above them, so an animal looking up at them can't see them very well.

cookiecutter sharks are also called cigar sharks!!

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed the cookiecutter shark under least concern, as it is widely distributed, has no commercial value, and is not particularly susceptible to fisheries.

[montereybayaquarium]

🦈 Sharks? Jawesome. Parthenogenesis? Even more fin-tastic than it’s hard to pronounce.

Let’s talk about the birds and the bees. Er, the sharks and the seas. Some species of sharks (and fish, invertebrates, reptiles, and birds!), can reproduce asexually—no mate required. Females use extra genetic materials to fertilize eggs and grow baby sharks completely on their own. How’s that for a Shark Week fact?

[sharkiedays]

Idk seems friendly enough

[mikeru6]

shout out to goblin sharks and their weird ass jaws! Goblin sharks have a special trait called a “slingshot jaw” where they snap their jaws forward to capture prey. their mouths can extend to up to 110 degrees wide, and shoot out at about 3.1 meters per second!

here’s a diagram of how it works: