Bull Shark Habitat Bull sharks are assertive species and they like to swim in shallow waters. They are usually present in warm temperate and tropical waters around the world. For the most part, bull sharks live below 30 meters depth of the continental shelf and its range cannot extend to…

The diet of the juvenile individuals of the whale sharks is unknown. However, it is assumed that they feed on small teleost fishes and zooplankton. It is estimated that a young individual can feed up to 46 pounds of food each day. The large individuals prey on schooling teleosts (of…

The Great Hammerhead shark preys on a diverse group of marine animals. It usually dines at dawn and dusk and includes sea catfishes, lobsters, tarpon, jacks, squids, sardines, toadfishes, groupers, porgies, crustaceans, crabs, herrings, croakers, boxfish, octopus, porcupine fish, grunts and even smaller sharks (like smoothhounds). Above all, the hammerhead…

Bull shark hunts alone and in order to catch its target, it uses bump-and-bite technique. Every so often, the bull sharks stalk its prey in dirty waters where it is not easy to see through so that its prey cannot see it coming. Bull sharks prey on a diverse group…

Whale shark is a plankton-eating shark. Each jaw contains about 300 to 350 rows of small teeth. There are curved cusps on its tiny teeth. The size of each tooth is about 3 millimeters. The whale shark possesses almost 27,000 teeth in total. However, they do not seem to play…

The dentition of the tiger shark is designed uniquely for ‘puncture-and-rip’ style. The jaws are very strong with highly serrated and sharp, comb-shaped teeth. Both jaws have similar shape and size. It has asymmetric teeth with hooked cusps. A tooth contains a primary cusp along with small secondary cusplets. The…