Shark Facts – Interesting and Fun Facts About Sharks

Facts About Sharks

Sharks that live in frigid waters can heat their eyes with a special organ next to a muscle in their eye socket. This enables them to keep hunting even in extreme temperatures.

Sharks wound heal quickly.

Sharks can feel vibrations in the water due to a line of canals that go from its head to its tail. These canals are filled with sensory cells growing hair, and when the water vibrates the hair moves allowing them to quickly locate prey.

Great white shark is warm blooded while all other species are cold blooded. Although the great white does not keep a constant body temperature, it needs to eat a lot of meat in order to be able to regulate its temperature.

Some Sharks need to move their entire live. This forces the water through gills, delivering oxygen to the blood stream. If they stop moving them they will suffocate and die.

Sharks sleep with their eyes open and only one side of the brain sleeps at a time.

Unlike other fishes that are covered with smooth, flat scales. A shark is covered in sharp, toothlike scales called denticles.

Sharks wound heal quickly.

The skin of a female shark is much thicker than that of a male, because males bite females during mating.

It is unknown where Great White Sharks mate.

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