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Sick of sharks yet? Have no fear, as this is the finale to my Shark Week facts! I have gathered all of the sharks, scaled them to their accurate size, and formed a cartilaginous crew!
I also added names so that you can tell who's who.
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Bonus!!
Somniosus microcephalus
-Famously known as the Greenland Shark
-400 years old and blind
-Loves cold water
-Body contains poisonous meat
-Aside from expected fish and seals, bones of reindeer and polar bears are also found within its stomach contents
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Sunday
Onchopristis numidus
-Lorge sawfish
-Lived from the lower Cretaceous to the upper Cretaceous
-Bad for sawing wood, great for raking food on the river floor
-Spinosaurus snack
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Saturday
Stethacanthus productus
-Lived through the Late Devonian to the Late Carboniferous
-Has spine-brushes on its head and backfin to reduce drag while swimming fast
-Has a weird anvil-looking fin on their head.
-Smol
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Friday
Chlamydoselachus anguineus
-Also known famously as the "frilled shark"
-Believed to belong to a group of ancestors that have lived 95 million years ago
-Despite fearsome appearances, it eats only cephalopods and bony fish.
-Good toothy boi
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Thursday
Edestus giganteus
-A eugeneodontid fish, which is an order of sharks that possessed freaky tooth-whorls
-Lived during the Late Devonian and Late Carboniferous
-A dentist's worst nightmare (and everyone else's)
-A face only a mother could love
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Wednesday
Helicoprion bessonowi
-A eugeneodontid fish, which is an order of sharks that possessed freaky tooth-whorls
-Lived during the Early Permian
-Bad at cutting wood but great at cutting fish
-A living mystery and a freak of nature
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Tuesday
Charcharocles Megalodon
-Lived through the Early Miocene to the Pliocene
-Destroyer of Whales
-Would probably speak in a gruff Australian accent
-Once thought to be an ancestor of the Great White Shark, now known to be in its own group: Otodontidae
SHARK WEEK FACTS- Monday
Dunkeleosteus terrelli
-Large placoderm (armored) fish
-Lived through the Late Devonian period
-Uses it sharp skull to chop and chomp food. That's very metal.
-Very bad at kissing
-Some media depictions have a xenomorph tongue for some reason.