Sharks

Sharks are some of the amazing creatures on earth! Why you ask? Well why don’t you start learning about them right now., They have one of the some of most powerful teeth that you could want to face. Teeth come in different ways some are curvy, pointy, sharp, and so much more. Their teeth teeth have meanings or jobs. Like long spiky teeth are catching their prey. Then flat teeth are for grinding, serrated are ripping. So there is much more. Sharks are also losing teeth all the time, but they are always growing them back. That’s why you might have a necklace with a shark tooth on it., Sharks have amazing eye sight. They say that sharks have better eye sight than us, because they sometimes are hunting in dark waters so hey have to see their prey clearly. Sharks skin feels bumpy sometimes you might think it feels sandpaper because it’s that bumpy. Why is it like this? Well because it’s trying to protect it’s skin and it make him swim faster. So if we had skin like that we could swim really fast! The Great White Shark’s skin is very hard to see when you are on a boat or in the water because, he has gray on top and white on the bottom so that makes it harder for his prey to see him.Then there is their tail. Their tail at the top is larger than the bottom ,so it could make it swim faster., You might think a sharks diet is everything with us in it, but they actually might eat like that but some don’t even eat us for dinner. It depends on how big they are and how they act. Like for example a Mako and a Great White they eat bigger things such as dolphins, seals, penguins, squid, turtles, and big fish. But normally other sharks eat small fish crabs and turtles. Then there is this thing called “Feeding Frenzy”. Let say that a shark just found a dead whale he starts eating. Then another shark may come by and start eating, so more sharks come and they start eating like crazy. Sometimes when there is barely they start eating even faster, some even bite the other sharks, or they might bite themselves. Weird right!!??, There are so many things about sharks but here are just a few. There are things that you can do with sharks. For example you can go inside a cage while a Great White is swimming around you. Then you can go swimming with whales sharks because they don’t bite you they are just going to be eating. Then there are things you can that don’t have to do with sharks like snorkeling and so much more., But do remember this, don’t be afraid of sharks they are amazing creatures. Without them our food web or food chain would be ruined why? Because there would be too much fish and it would not it in balance. So take of these great friends. So don’t be afraid of them because they might be afraid of us. By: Ariana 5B Enjoy my blog!!!!!

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