What are Great White Sharks?
COMMON NAME: Great White
Shark
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carcharodon carcharias
TYPE: Fish
DIET: Carnivore
GROUP NAME: School, shoal
SIZE: 15 feet to more than 20 feet
WEIGHT: 2.5 tons or more
Great White Sharks can live almost as long as human - 70 years or more.
Great White Sharks have about 300 teeth arranged in many rows. The first two rows of teeth are used for grabbing and cutting the animals they eat, while the other teeth in the last row replaces the front teeth when they are broken, worn down, or when they fall out.
(Click the image to see shark's breaching)
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carcharodon carcharias
TYPE: Fish
DIET: Carnivore
GROUP NAME: School, shoal
SIZE: 15 feet to more than 20 feet
WEIGHT: 2.5 tons or more
Great White Sharks can live almost as long as human - 70 years or more.
Great White Sharks have about 300 teeth arranged in many rows. The first two rows of teeth are used for grabbing and cutting the animals they eat, while the other teeth in the last row replaces the front teeth when they are broken, worn down, or when they fall out.
(Click the image to see shark's breaching)