- Sharks have a sensory organ called ‘ampullae of Lorenzini’ that allows them to feel electrical currents in the water!
- Scientists can tell the age of a shark by counting the rings on its vertebrae.
- A shark's egg case can also be referred to as a mermaid's purse!
- Baby sharks are called pups.
- You are 1,000 times more likely to drown at sea than to be attacked by a shark.
- Shark skeletons are made of cartilage and not bone, allowing for better flexibility.
- Sharks are studied for their incredible immune systems. They heal very quickly.
- Larger sharks tend to be the most harmless, they eat plankton by swimming with their jaws wide open.
- Shark skin is tough and before the invention of sandpaper it was used to polish wood.
- Sharks can smell a drop of blood in 1 million drops of water!
- A shark can hear a fish in the water more than a million miles away.
- Most of today’s sharks developed 64 million years ago!