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Earlier this year, the shark attack file found that New York’s eight unprovoked attacks last year were an annual record for the state, which had reported only 12 such attacks since 1837.
Acanthodii or acanthodians is an extinct class of gnathostomes (jawed fishes).They are currently considered to represent a paraphyletic grade of various fish lineages basal to extant Chondrichthyes, which includes living sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
Whale sharks' lifespans are estimated to be between 80 and 130 years, based on studies of their vertebral growth bands and the growth rates of free-swimming sharks. [9] [10] [11] Whale sharks have very large mouths and are filter feeders, which is a feeding mode that occurs in only two other sharks, the megamouth shark and the basking shark.
Most shark species are not known to prey on humans, with increased attacks occurring when natural prey is scarce. [10] The New York Bight, the triangle of water with Montauk at one apex, the Jersey Shore at the second apex, and New York Harbor in the middle, is known for its abundance of marine life, [11] thus providing a large amount of prey ...
The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian Institute said. Whale sharks feed on planktonic organisms including krill ...
Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between the states of New York and Connecticut.It is diverse and serves as a breeding ground to many different types of marine animal species; the following is a list of said species by scientific and/or common name.
In 2012, RFK Jr.'s daughter Kick Kennedy told a magazine her father severed a dead whale's head and the family drove for hours with it to Mount Kisco.
The largest species, called simply the nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum, may reach a length of 4.3 m (14 ft); the tawny nurse shark Nebrius ferrugineus is somewhat smaller at 3.2 m (10 ft), and the short-tail nurse shark Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum is by far the smallest at just 75 cm (2.46 ft) in length. The first of the three species ...