Greenland Shark Research Paper

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Sharks

The Greenland shark lives in the cold arctic sea. Sharks have a heart with two chambers and breathe with gills. Sharks don’t have any bones and have a cartilage. Sharks hear almost everything they can even hear people getting in and out of the water. Great white sharks like deep water and don’t like water that humans have been in.
Sharks can weigh up to fifteen ton and stretch up to fourteen meters long. The whale shark is the biggest fish in the water. Sharks can go down nine hundred meters below the ocean surface. The dwarf shark can be as small as twenty-five centimeters long. Almost all of the sharks in the ocean are harmless except for a few species.
Sharks can have up to eighteen tons of bite pressure. Sharks

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