Lamnidae

How Sharks Hunt Long viewed as dimwitted, bloodthirsty monsters, sharks are among the most intelligent species of fish. In fact, sharks have shown to be very versatile and efficient in their hunting methods. Sharks use a variety of hunting methods to capture their prey: adaptation, use of the senses, and strenuous power. Shark Adaptation. Adaptation for a shark is crucial for its hunting and more so for its survival. A shark's size is vital to its survival since “as the size of the great…

Are sharks going to be around forever? Sharks rule the sea, they are the very top. Sharks are known to be aggressive, mean, and known to attack so people want to kill when seen, but that is not entirely true. Attack of the human is very rare so no need to be afraid. There is problems with the overuse of sharks as in people love to eat them I believe that it’s going to be difficult to stop the overuse of sharks but if we were to inform the population about our problem, it would make it a whole…

Movies have “shown” us that sharks are vicious man eating predators, killing without thought, but sharks are a bit more complicated than that. Sharks are more terrifying in our minds than in reality. Movies like Jaws have given people the impression that sharks kill people without thought. This is false. Sharks are more curious than anything. Most of the time, sharks bite people once and let go. This is called “sample biting.” This is a way for sharks to identify what they are attacking. In…

Classification – Chondrichthyes is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. The kingdom of a grey nurse shark is Animalia because the grey nurse shark is a multicellular animal. The phylum is Chordata because it is a large animal that includes vertebrates . The class is Chondrichthyes because it has a cartilaginous skeleton. The order…

Understanding the Brain Sometimes you have to tell yourself, “I am a shark” and attack the day - Coach Campaign Understanding the brain is something that many people might find quite complex, especially if you are comparing it to a sea animal. However, they are not as complex as we think, for example, sharks and humans share the same characteristics and structures of the brain. Both species have a cerebrum located superiorly to the body along…

Another important adaptation that the Megalodon shark had that was very beneficial to it was its skin. The Megalodons skin was assumed to be similar to the Great White sharks skin. Therefore, its skin was sleek and slippery looking which Figure 10: Shark skin in high magnification (Meyer, 2013) helped the shark move through the water due to less friction. This was beneficial when hunting, for they could swim faster in order to catch prey. Although the skin of the Megalodon looked sleek, it was…

In my research on the Osprey I found that it has such unique characteristics that it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion, and family, which is the Pandionidae. An Osprey gravitates towards shallow fishing grounds because they are unable to dive more than about three feet below the water’s surface, therefore, their habitat includes almost any shallow fish-filled waters, such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, swamps, or marshes. It is the only hawk on the continent that eats almost…

Comparison of the Great White Shark (Carcharodon, Carcharodon Carcharias) and the Bottlenose dolphins’ (Tursiops, Tursiops Truncates) Social Behavior Umaima Sarwana 5130544 BSC1011L-U02 Janelle Nunez-Castilla Topic: Comparison between the social behavior of Bottlenose dolphins and the Great White Shark. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast between the social behaviors of the two organisms, and in general, discuss about aquatic life. Also, the…

As a result the vast majority of Lamniformes are currently listed as under threat (Figure 2). Within this order are four families for which 100% of the species are listed as under threat throughout the region: Alopiidae (thresher sharks), Lamnidae (mackerel sharks), Odontaspididae (sand tiger sharks) and the monospecific family of the basking shark (Cetorhinidae). Another family of sharks that is of high conservation concern are the hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae, order Carcharhiniformes).…