/r/sharks

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Sharks are misunderstood creatures - often portrayed as terrifying and dangerous they are not - here we appreciate sharks and value their place in our oceans.

We do not tolerate cruelty to sharks and will delete any posts encouraging touching animals in their native environments.

We respect that the ocean is their world - we are just tourists. There are also very few shark attacks globally - way less than you would think.

Sharks

A 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! (~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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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 extant

Related Subreddits:

/r/awwducational

/r/conservation

/r/fossilid

/r/lifeaquatic

/r/marinebiology

/r/oceans

/r/OceanLife

/r/scuba

/r/Shark_Attacks

/r/seacreatureporn (SFW)

/r/sharksporn (SFW)

/r/species

/r/whales

/r/WhaleSharks

Resources:

Keys to Shark identification

Identifying Shark Teeth

International Shark Attack File 2014

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So whats up?

Man ive been wondering for some time now why sharks exist, like where do they come from? Whats the deal with all those little grey blobs? It just so crazy, if you guys agree or have answers please tell me, thank you.

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2023/06/02
05:09 UTC

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360 Sharks at the Oklahoma Aquarium!

The Oklahoma Aquarium is home to the world’s largest collection of bull sharks. They inhabit a 380,000-gallon saltwater tank and tunnel, along with three nurse sharks.

0 Comments
2023/06/02
04:20 UTC

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Num Num 😋😋😋

0 Comments
2023/06/02
03:11 UTC

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*HA! Made you flinch*

8 Comments
2023/06/02
01:48 UTC

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Is this blood bear Cameron Robbins’s feet?

Link to see the change in color: https://streamable.com/15dk2o

Original: https://twitter.com/mal8384/status/1663570043001503748

There’s been a lot of discussion around whether it was a “wave” or a “shark.” I couldn’t discern either way. But then I started to slow down the video and focused in around his feet.

You can see me scrub the video back and forth. And it looks like the color of the water changes. It looks red.

Is this discoloration from the video quality, or is it unfortunate confirmation?

Still image of where to look: https://ibb.co/vk9HVDJ (won’t be able to see the change)

10 Comments
2023/06/02
01:18 UTC

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Is this a shark tooth?

I found it on a beach in Saco ME , so curious if it is a shark tooth? If so what kind of shark?

1 Comment
2023/06/02
00:27 UTC

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🤍🦈

4 Comments
2023/06/01
19:50 UTC

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Malaysia has at least 70 species of sharks!

3 Comments
2023/06/01
19:00 UTC

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Tiger Time

So you’re snorkeling in shallow waters in the Bahamas and this 12 foot juvenile tiger shows up .. what do you do? (Hint: don’t act like bait and snap a pic).

7 Comments
2023/06/01
11:44 UTC

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For everyone who keeps saying it wasn't a shark, watch it on a 27" monitor. At 19 secs you clearly hear him scream in agony, and this is why, at 21 secs his last agonizing scream, at 23 secs he's gone! The shark that's latched onto his leg is bigger than him!

55 Comments
2023/06/01
06:02 UTC

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Insert the Jaws Theme

36 Comments
2023/06/01
02:08 UTC

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Which would you rather come face to face with: a 10 foot Great White or 10 ft Mako?

11 Comments
2023/05/31
23:20 UTC

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lemons are jealous 🤣

37 Comments
2023/05/31
12:56 UTC

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What a beauty!

4 Comments
2023/05/31
12:12 UTC

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Shark or wave in this tragic event?

I guess many of you saw a video of tragic event happened in the Bahamas when Cameron Robbins jumped off ship. I'm not sure what to think.

305 Comments
2023/05/31
10:31 UTC

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Which one is better

Great hammerhead or shovelhead

2 Comments
2023/05/31
06:19 UTC

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Do any of yall know this movie

it a movie about a tiger shark (i think) in a river attacking people and ends with the shark being smashed with a oil drill thingy, my memory about the movie sucked cuz i was a little sleepy

19 Comments
2023/05/31
01:34 UTC

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Help identify this tooth found in NC

My daughter was walking along the beach and the ocean just washed this up to her feet. She keeps asking what kind of shark it came from and I am having a hard time identifying it.

13 Comments
2023/05/30
20:46 UTC

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Sharkopath (future is wild)

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2023/05/30
14:06 UTC

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Looking for specific Shark Movie

So there was this movie I see a few years ago and it was really good. I don’t have the best memory of it but It was about some girls and I think 2 guys going cave diving with one of the girls fathers. One of the guys was binding metal in the cave underwater, had speakers to listen to music & everything. There’s a great white that lurks in these caves and ended up killing everyone. At the end of the movie they made it out of the cave but they were trapped in a circular rock formation so they couldn’t actually leave. The shark kills the father at the end in this rock formation and I’m pretty sure only one of the girls survived. Since I don’t have enough information I can’t find it anywhere. Any suggestions on what this movie is called??

13 Comments
2023/05/30
13:52 UTC

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Identifying part 2

Ok here is another video I need help with but I am thinking a Silky

35 Comments
2023/05/30
13:20 UTC

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Did not know that great whites can spin in the air like that

2 Comments
2023/05/30
10:57 UTC

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