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Sharks could be facing extinction over the next couple of decades. Human interference is largely to blame for the species interference. Overfishing of sharks has increased as the global demand has ...
[10] [11] Sharks are often killed for shark fin soup, which some Asian countries regard as a status symbol. [12] Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water to die from suffocation or predators. [11] [13] Sharks are also killed for their flesh in Europe and elsewhere. [14]
Hybodontiformes, commonly called hybodonts, are an extinct group of shark-like cartilaginous fish (chondrichthyans) which existed from the late Devonian to the Late Cretaceous. Hybodonts share a close common ancestry with modern sharks and rays (Neoselachii) as part of the clade Euselachii. They are distinguished from other chondrichthyans by ...
Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of ...
The Lamniformes (/ ˈ l æ m n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /, from Greek lamna "fish of prey") are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks (which may also refer specifically to the family Lamnidae). It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white [1] as well as less familiar ones, such as the goblin shark ...
Greenland sharks have also been found with remains of moose, polar bear, horse, and reindeer (in one case an entire reindeer body) in their stomachs. [13] [26] [22] The Greenland shark is known to be a scavenger and is attracted by the smell of rotting meat in the water. The sharks have frequently been observed gathering around fishing boats. [13]
Cetorhinidae is a family of filter feeding mackerel sharks, whose members are commonly known as basking sharks. It includes the extant basking shark , Cetorhinus , as well as two extinct genera , Caucasochasma and Keasius .
The dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, occurring in tropical and warm-temperate continental seas worldwide.A generalist apex predator, the dusky shark can be found from the coast to the outer continental shelf and adjacent pelagic waters, and has been recorded from a depth of 400 m (1,300 ft).