MORE SPECIFICS ABOUT SHARKS, TERRORS OF THE OCEAN

A JAW THE SIZE OF THREE HUMANS

A whale shark can open its mouth up to 15ft (4.6m) wide.

Thankfully it only eats plankton!

SHARKS' EXCELLENT PERIPHERAL VISION

A troubling shark fact for smaller fish, sharks can see around

themselves in nearly 360 degrees. The only spots they can’t

see are in front of their snouts and just behind their heads.

A FOOTBALL-PLAYING SHARK

When they’re not cruising around looking for a meal,

porbeagle sharks toss bits of seaweed among themselves

in a game that has been compared to football.

THE PATRON SHARK OF TRAVELLERS

If you’re a backpacker looking for a new spirit animal,

consider the hammerhead shark. The nomadic travellers

swim from the Floridian coasts all the way up to Polar Regions,

adapting to the changing temperatures along the way.

A SHARK'S LARGEST ORGAN

Despite their seemingly ravenous hunger, a shark’s liver,

not its stomach, is its largest organ.

SHARKS' PEARLY WHITES

One of the coolest shark facts is that sharks never get cavities.

The outside of their teeth are made of fluoride, the

primary active ingredient in mostly toothpastes.

THE UNDERACHIEVING SHARK

The hideous looking (and strangely named) wobbegong shark

doesn’t shark-it-up very well. A bad swimmer, the shark

lays in ambush on the seafloor for days at a time to

surprise fish which swim by.

SHARK VS MAN

Sharks kill less than 15 people annually, a meagre number

when compared to the 73 million sharks killed by man each year.