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Rodney Fox – Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of great white shark attack and one of the world's foremost authorities on them; Andre Hartman – South African diving guide best known for free-diving unprotected with great white sharks; Hans Hass – diving pioneer, known for shark documentaries
Shark skeletons are very different from those of bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates. Sharks and other cartilaginous fish (skates and rays) have skeletons made of cartilage and connective tissue. Cartilage is flexible and durable, yet is about half the normal density of bone. This reduces the skeleton's weight, saving energy. [29]
The first shark-like chondrichthyans appeared in the oceans 400 million years ago, [1] developing into the crown group of sharks by the Early Jurassic. [2] Listed below are extant species of shark. Sharks are spread across 512 described and 23 undescribed species in eight orders. The families and genera within the orders are listed in ...
The tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) is a species of carpet shark in the family Orectolobidae and the only extant member of the genus Eucrossorhinus.It inhabits shallow coral reefs off northern Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands.
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