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Great white shark
Carcharodon carcharias
Specimen No. 03
Carcharodon carcharias
Open-water hunters
- A great white shark has around 300 teeth, arranged in rows like a conveyor belt; teeth at the back move forward to replace the front ones. Wikipedia
- Great whites are partly warm-blooded, which helps them stay active in cold water. Wikipedia
- Great white sharks are thought to live for more than 70 years. Wikipedia
- Great white sharks keep their eggs inside: the eggs hatch in the mother and the embryos carry on growing there. Wikipedia
- Its fearsome reputation owes a lot to the 1974 novel Jaws and the 1975 film. In reality, white sharks don’t normally prey on humans. Wikipedia
- In its 2019 assessment (updated in 2022), the IUCN listed the great white as Vulnerable worldwide. Wikipedia