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Sharks replace their teeth approximately every 2 weeks and some species, like the Great White Shark, can lose 60,000 teeth in their lifetime! Female sharks are larger than males. Royal Blue. Anatomy of a Great White Shark. Males have claspers, which are elongated pelvic fin edges. The skeleton of a shark is mainly made of cartilage.
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A lot of heat is lost through a shark’s gills, where blood vessels are exposed to cooler water. When people think of sharks, they generally imagine an animal like the one in this picture.
Sport Grey. Some scientists believe that when a male great white shark reaches a certain large size, it turns into a female.
Shark anatomy differs from that of bony fish in a variety of ways.
Great white sharks are the largest predatory fish.
But there are actually more than 400 different shark species … Flat crushing teeth are perfect for eating shellfish, pointed teeth for gripping fish and sharp serrated teeth for larger prey, such as seals. Females have a cloaca, one opening that serves digestive and reproductive functions. This includes the White Shark, Porbeagle, Salmon Shark, Shortfin Mako and Longfin Mako.
Claspers are used in reproduction. Color. Variation observed within shark anatomy is a potential result of speciation and habitat variation Skeleton. The tall dorsal fin, torpedo-shaped body and giant teeth of this great white shark are familiar to most everybody. We can tell what a shark eats by the shape of its teeth. The legendary great white shark is far more fearsome in our imaginations than in reality.
Often thought to be man-eaters, they are actually responsible for only five to 10 attacks on humans per year. Retaining warmth makes them much more efficient predators. Anatomy. The Great White is known for its size, with mature sharks reaching upwards of 6.4m (21 ft) in length, with females being larger than the males, and an approximate weight limit of 3,000 kg ( 7,000 lb).
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Style. Top end measurements are based off of the largest Great White ever recorded, caught off the coast of Cuba in 1945. So, in either sense of the meaning, White Sharks are not the 'cold-blooded killers' they're made out to be.