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Top Ten Facts About Sharks

1 World's Biggest Fish
1 World's Biggest Fish

1 World’s Biggest Fish. Our first segment for this list of interesting shark facts is about the biggest fish in the world – the Whale shark. This species ranges in length anywhere from 33 to 40 feet (on average about as long as a school bus!) but have also been known to reach a length of 60 feet. They don’t just have all other sharks and fish beat by length, however; they are also ...

2 Oldest Predator
2 Oldest Predator

2 Oldest Predator. Another one of our interesting shark facts is that sharks are one of the oldest predators still alive, having swum in the ocean over the last 450 million years! That makes them an evolutionary predecessor of the dinosaurs by at least 200 million years, and one of the most advanced predatory creatures because of it. They are one of the only creatures to have survived all 5 ...

3 Language
3 Language

Shark facts for kids. One of the biggest differences between sharks and mammals is that sharks have much shorter intestines. Sharks are lazy, and the laziest shark is Nurse Sharks.

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4 Not All Apex Predators
4 Not All Apex Predators

4 Not All Apex Predators Though many associate all sharks as a generality by their big bodies and many rows of sharp, serrated teeth, not all sharks have sharp teeth, and many shark species don’t even really need their teeth.

5 Adaptive Predators
5 Adaptive Predators

5 Adaptive Predators. Though sharks of all species tend to live in a warm, salt water habitat, they are not all restricted to that area. Some species, like the Bull shark, are able to adapt enough to live briefly in bodies of fresh water as well, though they typically fare quite poorly within them, or in a mixed environment of fresh and salt water such as estuaries and watersheds which connect ...

7 Not All Hunters Are Solo
7 Not All Hunters Are Solo

7 Not All Hunters Are Solo While most sharks prefer to hunt alone, there are some species of shark – such as the Blue shark or the Scalloped Hammerhead, that can be found hunting in groups known as “schools,” and often travel great distances this way as well.

8 Worst Temper
8 Worst Temper

One of the other interesting shark facts to go along with this is the fact that sharks can go through as many as 30,000 teeth within their lifetime due to the many rows of primary and replacement teeth they are equipped with.