/r/sharks
Sharks are amazing, important, and often misunderstood animals. We welcome enthusiasts, experts, and curious minds to dive in and explore the fascinating world of sharks!
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.
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/seacreatureporn (SFW)
/r/sharksporn (SFW)
Resources:
/r/sharks
206,677 Subscribers
How many do you count? (OC)
13:50 UTC
Made this cute drawing of a shark last year, like it?
06:03 UTC
best shark documentaries??
Heyy when i was like 7 i had a moment where i was obsessed with sharks and watched to see of documentaries on them and i dtill love sharks so i want to revisit some shark documentaries but i struggle to find good ones which i really like or remind me of when i was younger. So can anyone give me some recommendations
02:06 UTC
Oceanic white tip
Elphinstone Reef, Egypt
This Longimanus came to check us out during a safety stop. The current took us far from the reef, in blue water. Very impressive and beautiful shark.
01:00 UTC
Hammerhead
Elphinstone Reef, Egypt
Cruising peacefully at 130 feet
00:54 UTC
This Greenland shark looks so chipper
Its so cool that they can grow up to 20 feet long!
22:15 UTC
Want to ID this shark Tooth from Emerald Isle NC
Hi! Found this heck of a shark tooth while searching today in Emerald Isle, NC today. It looks like a sand tiger shark but I am unsure if anyone has a better ID than that! Thanks!
21:26 UTC
Help Identifying
This dude caught a little shark off the pier at Pismo Beach, central California (cold Pacific). He kept saying it was a soopie shark (couldn't understand his drawl, so l don't know how to spell it) and another guy called it a dogfish.
Thought they were going to release it.
21:18 UTC
Do Great Whites Hunt Giant Squid?
20:21 UTC
Finally! Got a chance to dive with my dream shark, oceanic whitetip in Red Sea after so many dives of no-whitetip. It swimmed very close to me. One of the best 15 sec of my life!
07:04 UTC
Any ID?
Found this tooth from when i was a kid, I either got it from drumheller, AB, Canada or from Puta Cana, Dominican Rebublic. Anyone able to identify the shark that owned it?
05:54 UTC
Saw this guy in Florida Keys snorkeling
what flavor is he ?
03:52 UTC
Wait, is it legal to sell shark fin in a US restaurant? I don’t want to snitch but…
23:42 UTC
Is this enough for an ID? Gulf of Mexico near Florida
15:24 UTC
They say when a shark bites a human, it is "mistaken identity"..
First, I'd like to start off by saying I have always had a lifelong interest in sharks & I strongly believe in their conservation as they are essential to our oceans. I'm a big supporter of sharks.
Ever since I can remember, when a shark bites a human, they have said it is "mistaken identity" for their favorite foods, like a seal, for example. They say sharks' "color blind" eyesight can aid in this mistaken identity, among other things. I am sure this helps humans not demonize sharks as "man eaters" and whatnot. I mean, I don't deny mistaken identity is true BUT idk, I just feel like sharks are not a bunch of imbeciles either and are clearly not "mindless". I'm sure they can make mistakes but is that what is happening?
I know it's not the same, but I have kept fish for years and even my little tiny fish have personalities and are actually relatively smart. They can learn & they do recognize me as compared to other people & recognize my voice. They have favored foods and can recognize the difference instantly. Sharks are wayyyyyy bigger and have survived on this planet even when other species went extinct. I just have trouble believing that they don't recognize people as potentially easy prey, especially when hungry & though they enjoy seals, I don't think they think WE are seals. They aren't "man eaters", but they are "eaters". I can't fault them for wanting to eat. Humans try all sorts of food, even food we have never eaten before, why can't sharks?
Obviously, sharks chewing on people and consuming someone's family member is a bad look for sharks, even if it's rare. Then, there's horror movies depicting sharks as deliberate maneaters. I realize people hold the key to their protection as a species, so is there actual proof of mistaken identity or is it more of a shield to help protect them as a species? Any thoughts? Any insight?
03:38 UTC
A beautiful blue. A bit endearingly cute even?
00:59 UTC
Puffadder Shyshark from Cape Town, South Africa
16:13 UTC
What are some dumb shark movies i can watch this summer on netflix?
Other than under paris and the meg 1 and 2 i seen those, Thanks
13:50 UTC
Does anybody know which shark this tooth belongs to?
Its about 1.5 cm long
13:38 UTC
Shark movies with a lot of shark focus?
I’ve been kind of let down with a few of the shark movies I’ve watched recently, too much focus on the human backstory and time spent on a boat or raft waiting for a shark to appear?
What movies pretty consistently have sharks featured throughout?
12:13 UTC
does this shark hurt its snout?
does this sand tiger shark (correct me if i'm wrong) hurt its snout? and is it possible that the sharks in aquarium might hurt its snout by bumping into the glass in the water tank?
09:22 UTC
Sharkception!
Whatcha guys think of my shark socks and shark sandals? 🦈
04:43 UTC