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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:
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Swim in Greece, get bit by a shark lol
02:27 UTC
True
22:11 UTC
Hammerhead or Great white? Pick a fav guys 🙈
17:13 UTC
What Are These Great White Sharks Doing? Interesting Behaviors
16:19 UTC
get rotated idiot
11:41 UTC
What Are These Great White Sharks Doing? A Collection of Interesting Behaviors.
05:23 UTC
Shark documentary recommendations?
Whats your favourite shark documentary? I have no clue where to start, but i want watch more documentary’s
All the titles of the national geographic ones sound like they were written by a 10 year old boy and i feel like the content is going to be the same vibe, so I’ve been too afraid to watch one.
00:57 UTC
What shark?
08:45 UTC
i just got this shark tooth necklace, does anyone know what shark it was?
08:33 UTC
During my 2021 vacation. Island of La Digue, Seychelles.
17:50 UTC
Cayman island nurse shark got a little frisky
I was snorkeling in the Cayman islands last week and had this nurse shark swim directly at me. This was only the 4th shark I'd ever come across in real life while snorkeling. Even though I knew it was a nurse shark, it came on pretty fast and I admittedly spazzed a bit. My question is, what was it doing? I've only ever seen them basically sleeping on the ocean floor or lazily swimming along it. Was it maybe protecting babies (I didn't see any)? Just checking me out? The way it swam up didn't seem super aggressive, but it definitely seemed fixed on me.
16:30 UTC
Some Reef Sharks I Filmed, Saint Croix USVI
05:57 UTC
Long Lost Documentary
I am trying to remember the name of a shark documentary I used to watch from the late 90s-early 00s. I cannot remember the name for anything but I remember it opens with a Tiger shark chasing a turtle with the turtle ultimately getting away. There is a portion on Angel sharks with a halibut laying right on top of one at one point. There's also a segment with a large whelk predating a Horned shark egg case. Does anyone else remember this documentary. I think it was National Geographic? Maybe PBS? Thank you.
02:19 UTC
Shark ID continued
I posted a few pics yesterday and people are between ideas. Hopefully the movement helps. Given the size and lightness of its colour ive been leaning more towards juvenile bull...
01:34 UTC
The only sharks out of more than 500 species to cause double-digit fatalities
20:08 UTC
Womp womp
13:07 UTC
I NEED SHARK STUFF
Please send me links to your favorite shark themed things rom decor, clothing, stuffed animals etc. thanks
20:36 UTC
Thought I’d share this “not so great white” shark pin my partner made for me 🦈
I had been responding to my partner via text with this meme so much he decided to make my dreams a reality lol!
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