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Whale sharks have unique spot patterning on their sides, similar to a human fingerprint, which allows for individual identification. Scuba divers around the world can photograph sharks and upload their identification photographs to the Sharkbook website, supporting global research and conservation efforts.
This torpedo-like shark can be spotted around 10 miles off the southwest coast of England in summer months. They can grow up to 12ft (3.8m) long and are known to give birth to as many as 50 live ...
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The megamouth shark is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark, and the smallest of the three filter-feeding sharks. Since its discovery in 1976, only a few megamouth sharks have been seen, with 55 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2012, including three recordings on film.
First list of most 'important' sharks to write good non stub articles about, all these articles have all the basic facts that we want to have (except mostly range maps) BUT they lack a lot of meat (compare oceanic whitetip shark and tiger shark with these articles and try to update them to be as good, use the references links below if you need ...
Blank political world map with blue oceans, fit to replace File:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.PNG. Date: 25 July 2006: Source: World Map Blank.svg: Author: Petr Dlouhý: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Carte Coffea robusta arabic.svg; Hantaviren weltweit.svg; OttomanEmpireIn1683.png
feature: which geographic objects should be displayed (corresponds in the map data to the name of the field under the objects field). The default is value countries. ids of geographic entities: The actual parameter names depend on the base map and the selected feature. For example, for the above mentioned world map the ids are ISO country codes.
The first shark-like chondrichthyans appeared in the oceans 400 million years ago, [1] developing into the crown group of sharks by the Early Jurassic. [2] Listed below are extant species of shark. Sharks are spread across 556 described and 23 undescribed species in eight orders. The families and genera within the orders are listed in ...