Great White Shark

The Great White Shark

The most fearsome hunter in the ocean has no skeleton. Its ancestors dined on dinosaurs. It sometimes eat people. It's the great white shark.

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Facts about Great White Shark( black tipped pectoral fins.

Length: Most reach an avarage length of 10 to 12 feet (6 meters).

Weight: Most weight about 1000 pounds (450 kilograms), but some may weight as much as 2 tons (1800 kilograms).

Color: Dark grey on top and off-white on the bottom.

Distinctive Habits: Hunts along shorelines for mammals. Although it is thought to eat people, few cases have been reported.

Food: Fish, squid, seals, sea lions, whales.

Reproduction: Eggs hatch in female's body. Then female gives birth to live offspring.

Life Span: Unknown.

Works Cited

Markle, Sandra. Great White Sharks. San Francisco: n.p., 2004. 

Martin, James. The Great White Shark. N.p.: Capstone Press, 1995. 

Picture Gallery

Works Cited:

Great White Shark. 10 Mar. 2008 http://www.elasmodiver.com.

Great White Sharks Pictures. 12 Mar. 2008 http://www.apexpredators.com/‌store/.

National Geographic. 12 Mar. 2008 http://ngcblog.nationalgeographic.com/.

Shark Research Institute. 12 Mar. 2008 http://www.sharks.org/.

Sharks. 11 Mar. 2008 http://www.reefnews.com.

Sharks Find Out Now. 9 Mar. 2008 http://sharks.findoutnow.org.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8964414149458454494&q=sharks+videos&ei=nSYMSKOXMYSE4gLbypW1BA&hl=en

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Shark Attacks

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Great White shark attack photo gallery of an attack in Aldinga Beach Australia (1963). Victim required 462 stiches.
Rod Fox, Aldinga Beach, South Australia

In 1963, Rodney was in a spearfishing contest in Australia.
He swam down to spear a fish but felt something was wrong straight away. Before he could react he was hit by a large Great White shark.
He was quickly rescued by a boat. His injuries were horrific.He had 462 stitches.

His wetsuit iscredited with holding him together. One lung was punctured. His ribs were exposed and bone was showing along his right hand and arm. The shark was estimated to be about nine foot long.

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Dawn Schauman of Melbourne Beach, FloridaDawn was attacked by a 10 foot bull shark, while she was 6 ½ months pregnant. The attack was on October 26, 1993, around 10:00 a.m.

References:

Shark Attacks. 11 Apr. 2008 . 

PRECONCEIVED IDEAS
Certain falsehoods concerning Sharks

Hunger does not exist in sharks. This is untrue. "The shark is capable of very long periods of fasting, and it seems that it may have periodicity in its eating habits. During these "eating phases" it is evident that we can talk of "hunger", and attacks then will be different in their determination and development." (Reader's Digest 91)

The shark have a very poor eyesight. Not only can a shark see contrasts well, but it has good night vision thanks to a histological structure peculiar to nocturnal animals. It can even see colors.

Sharks attack in order to feed. The image of the insatiable shark that swallows everything it encounters in order to assuage a hunger that is never satisfied is one of the most false. Over 1500 cases of shark attacks on on men ,50-75% of these attacks have nothing to do with nutrition.

Works Cited

Compagno, Leonard, Marc Dando, and Sarah Fowler. Sharks of the World. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 

Digest, Reader's. Sharks. New York: n.p., 1998. 

Books Recommended About Sharks:

Shark: The Shadow Below

Shark!

Great White Shark!

Sharks! : Predators of the Sea

Sharks and Rays

Best Book of Sharks

Encyclopedia of Sharks

Sharks

Shadows in The Sea; The Sharks, Skates and Rays, Fully

Sharks

Sharks; The Perfect Predators

Great White Sharks

Fake Pic

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The photo above was a classic email hoax circa 2002; it was claimed to be National Geographic's "Photo of The Year". What most people don't know is that the picture is fake! It was spliced together from a U.S. Air Force photo taken near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge (as we can see) and a photo of a Great White Shark from South Africa.
PS: There has not been a "great" white shark sited in the San Francisco Bay since the 1960s.

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References:

Shark Information. 28 Mar. 2008 .