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Stethacanthidae is an extinct family of prehistoric sharks. [1] It is estimated to have existed approximately between 380 and 300 million years ago. Members of this family are noted for their peculiar dorsal fin.
In September 2008, The Kingdom, a tiger shark, sold at Hirst's Sotheby's auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, for £9.6 million (more than £3 million above its estimate). [16] Hirst has made a miniature version of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living for the Miniature Museum in the Netherlands.
She is one of the biggest great white sharks ever filmed and could be at least fifty years old. The vertical slashes on her left flank are either from fights with other sharks or mating scars.
Rosie is a preserved great white shark located at Crystal World Exhibition Centre in Devon Meadows, Australia.She was originally preserved in a glass tank of formaldehyde on display at Wildlife Wonderland in Bass, Victoria [1] which closed in 2012 due to animal welfare concerns and operating without appropriate licences. [2]
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay. Photos: Is that shark smiling? Here's why young great whites grin at Monterey Bay's Shark Park
Mackerel sharks, also called white sharks, are large, fast-swimming sharks, found in oceans worldwide. They include the great white, the mako, porbeagle shark, and salmon shark. Mackerel sharks have pointed snouts, spindle-shaped bodies, and gigantic gill openings. The first dorsal fin is large, high, stiff and angular or somewhat rounded.
You could call her a professional mermaid of sorts. One woman risked her life to swim with some of the most dangerous sea creatures in the world. Dressed in only a tiny costume with no diving gear ...