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Imagine spotting a shark’s dorsal fin mere feet from where your daughter is swimming in the shallow water of the ocean. That scenario played out at Myrtle Beach for one family.
A video showing multiple sharks swimming close to the shoreline just south of Myrtle Beach, California, has gone viral, gaining over ten million views since it was uploaded on May 16.
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Shark migration patterns may be even more complex than in birds, with many sharks covering entire ocean basins. Sharks can be highly social, remaining in large schools. Sometimes more than 100 scalloped hammerheads congregate around seamounts and islands, e.g., in the Gulf of California. [39] Cross-species social hierarchies exist.
Ocean Animals Educational Video Presentations 51515 Seasons 1980 ... Video Classics: The Sharks 1982 1994 90 0-7922-2677-1 Columbia TriStar Home Video: 51596
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 ...
Most of the sharks spotted in the area are juveniles — despite their size, the great whites are only up to about 6 years old and very inexperienced hunters.
In the Pacific Ocean, newborns average 45–55 cm (18–22 in) long, and number two to fourteen per litter. [17] In one population off Brazil, sharks were recorded to grow an average of 25.2 cm (9.9 in) in one year, reducing to 13.6 cm (5.4 in) per year up to four years and then 9.7 cm (3.8 in) in their fifth year.