Basking shark

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” says Vicki Harrison, the author of Dressed to Thrill. Learning to swim is something that almost anyone can accomplish. Much like swimming in the ocean, no matter how overwhelming it can become, everyone can learn to cope with their grief. For the main character in A Christmas Carol, however, he strives to take on his grief without learning…

attacked by a mako shark. Being destroyed means only losing something small, such as losing a battle. Being defeated, however, means losing something large, such as losing a war. In the context of the novel, Santiago is destroyed because he loses the first fish that he caught after eighty-four days. However, Santiago did not lose the war, because he did not die after being alone at sea for three days without sufficient supplies and medical care. He survived the multiple shark attacks, and…

few species suffer the same peril that the sharks of our oceans do. Sharks are the apex predators of our waters, and if we continue our ways we run the risk of threatening our entire oceanic food chain. One may ask how this has become such a real possibility, and the answer is both simple and disturbing – shark finning. The act of shark finning is gruesome, shocking, and extremely wasteful. When a shark is caught, all of its fins are sliced off and the shark is dumped overboard, often still…

you see the dentist right away.  Elephants have up to six sets of teeth in their life time.  When a horse is angry, it pulls back its ears and curls its lips to show its teeth  Sharks lose their teeth every week.  Basking shark and whale shark have very sharp teeth and usually eat big fish. The greater white shark is known to be a man eater.  A mouse’s front teeth never stops growing, when a mouse gnaws on something, its bottom teeth push upwards and shave off a little bit at a time. …

anthropogenic process threatening shark populations on a global and local scale. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) landings in the last six decades have nearly tripled, resulting in a worldwide decline of shark populations. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) carried out extensive assessments worldwide on the conservation status of shark species, and recently considerable effort has been placed on local assessments of shark…

Most animals especially marine species on the Earth right now are struggling to face one major problem that they cannot resist it from happens which is extinction of their own kinds. This issue is what most human just ignore about and they tend not to deal with it. History of Earth shows that there are five major extinction events and the fifth extinction is the one that killed every dinosaur on the Earth surface as a result of an asteroid. Earth is now in the eve of sixth extinction as humanity…

cared about how we were affecting our surroundings with our carelessness and inability to think of future generations, it’s all gone. Now, only a few species remain. Hypotheses: Sun Basking Shark: With the absence of fish in the sea, these sharks had to find a means to survive and that meant looking to the sun. These sharks were genetically modified by some of the last humans to have green fins that contained a significant amount of chlorophyll so they would be able to survive as long as the sun…

Scales are the exoskeleton covering of the fishes found in most of the cartilaginous and bony fishes which provide protection to the body. Scales are small, thin, cornified, calcareous or bony plates which fit closely together or overlap. Scales are complex derivatives of the integument and are derived from the mesenchymal cells of the dermis. They vary greatly in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimp fishes and box fishes, to microscopic…

Prologue A brown duck. My dad and I bought it from the Soug el Ghazel. In Arabic “Soug” means “market.” The Soug sold nothing but animals, from baby fish and sharks to puppies and dogs, ducks to turkeys. The smell of Kabob and Shawerma wafted from nearby shops, the Soug was in its busiest time. As we were strolling about the market, we noticed a crowd that was gathering up ahead. My young eyes sparked , eager to find out the cause of the assembly. I pushed my way into the crowd, excitement…