SharksA place for selachimorphaphiles to share discussion, experience, questions, photos, videos, research, original content, artwork, articles, and fashion. Pretty much anything relevant so long as it abides by our few rules.Sharks should be appreciated, understood, and respected.Not feared, disregarded, and poached to extinction. Shark Facts:.Sharks belong to the class Chondrichthyes meaning they have skeletons made of cartilage. Contrary to popular myths they do get cancer.There are more than 470 species of sharks split across thirteen orders, including four orders of sharks that have gone extinct.Fossil records indicate that ancestors of modern sharks existed over 420 million years ago, making them older than Dinosaurs!
A 12-foot-long, 1,000-pound great white shark named Ironbound is swimming in Miami's Biscayne Bay, according to Ocearch, an organization that monitors shark migration patterns. A 12-foot-long great white shark named 'Ironbound' appears to be heading into the Gulf of Mexico when other tagged members of its species are moving in the other direction. According to tracking.
(240 million years ago).If you're incredibly lucky 1 in 11.5 million are the odds of a shark attack, and 1 in 264.1 million to die by a shark. In a lifetime, you are more likely to die from fireworks, lightning, drowning, a car accident, stroke, or heart disease.For every human killed by a shark, humans kill approximately two million sharks.Citations, Rules. DO NOT submit posts or comments that PROMOTE or ADVERTISE the following:. Shark fishing, culling, or poaching. Photos that exhibit sharks in unnatural environments. An extinct species (Megaladon) is extantRelated Subreddits:(SFW)(SFW)Resources. Please keep ocearch off this sub.
They are a terrible organization that do not care about the health of GWs.The shark in this picture was caught using oversized tackle and allowed to fight itself to exhaustion on a buoy. It was then lifted out of water where immense stress was placed on its surrounding organs due to the loss of buoyancy from the water around it.Ocearch ruins other teams research. They killed a tleast one shark. (Maya) They are banned from multiple states and countries. All they care about is ad revenue.Their leader has no marine background and has in an interview compared himself to Jacques Cousteau.If you want to support great whites please support Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.