Sharks

Title: Sharks
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Sharks

SHARKS Sharks are any of the 340 species of fish that, together with the skates, rays, and chimeras, are sharply distinguished from the vast number of bony fish species by their cartilaginous skeletons. Sharks are very keen-sensed fishes, many species of which are able to hunt and eat nearly all the larger water animals in both shallow and deep seas. These two features account for their long evolutionary history. Many of the shark species living today …showed first 75 words of 1134 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1134 total…live in oceans throughout the world but are most commonly found in warm and temperate climates and waters. Most sharks are long, slender, tubes shaped from nose to tail. Sharks have a skeleton of cartilage, five to seven pairs of gill slits on the sides of its head, and no swim bladder. Sharks have outer scales made from the same material as his teeth. Sharks coloration often provides a clue to it’s preferred habitat.

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