To celebrate I invite you all to scurry the internet (and watch tv) to find random shark facts. ONE per post, more than one fact per post gets a shark frenzied downvote! Also feel free to post some awesome shark pics.

I'll start:


Contrary to the common myth that sharks are instinct-driven "eating machines", recent studies have indicated that many species possess powerful problem-solving skills, social complexity and curiosity. The brain-mass-to-body-mass ratios of sharks are similar to those of mammals and other higher vertebrate species.

While blood likely does not provoke a shark to attack, a shark in the vicinity likely can detect the blood. Without any conclusive proof of how sharks might respond, some scientists suggest women stay out of the water while menstruating

The oceanic white-tipped sharks are the most fearless predators. Jacques-Yves Cousteau says that it is: "the only species of shark that is never frightened by the approach of a diver, and they are the most dangerous of all sharks."

Someone had to do it. :D

There are, on average, 63 shark attacks per year, with less than five fatalities. Sharks, however, are being killed at a rate of 250,000 per day through targeted fishing and bi-catch. Some shark populations are in serious declines. The hammerhead population has declined by 90 percent in the past 20 years. Sharks clearly have more to fear from us than we do from them!

Breaching

Shraks r cool

Also, watch me quote the opening comment of the thread. Ha!

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Shark fact: This image is shopped.

"Shark" is not a slang term for "s**tty ark", though it probably could be.

Also,



The basking shark: 2nd biggest shark, a plankton eater, characterized by its wide mouth, hunted for its fin and my favorite shark ever.

I fail.

Throw me to the dolphins.

The Helicoprion.

if only ESPN2 ran "Pool Shark Week" in conjunction with this.

wow, amazing.

nature is incredible

So it trying to get upvotes.