Author: Sue Hamilton
Description: GREAT WHITE SHARK!
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1. A girl named Bethany Hamilton gets bitten by a shark and loses her arm.
2. A shark has 20,000 teeth in its lifetime.
3. There are about 400 different shark species.
4. Sharks have lived on this planet for more than 450 million years.
5. The shark species as we know have been around for about 100 million years. This means that they were here on earth when dinosaurs were around.
6. Sharks are known to be an old creature, with fossils from some of the oldest sharks from back as far as 450 million years.
7. Before sharks could swim, sharks were known to crawl on land, eventually going into the sea in order to move more effectively.
8. Typically, most sharks will be in the water around the warmer parts of the ocean, ranging from the central regions of the Americas to places around the tips of Africa, Australia, and India.
9. Today, the shark is known as a predator that will attack at the sight of blood. However, this myth of sharks is not really accurate.
10. It has not been until the last two decades that shark attacks have become a more known factor in various areas of the globe. And these are just a few of many more facts about sharks!
