When Great white shark pups are born, they are between 3.9 and 4.9 feet long. The males grow to an average of between 11 and 13ft, while the females grow to typically 15 – 16ft long.
Great white sharks are estimated to have around 300 teeth in their mouths at any given time, and are thought to replace lost or damaged teeth throughout their lives, potentially growing over 20,000 teeth in their lifetime! This is because sharks have a conveyor belt-like system where teeth grow from the back of their mouths and move forward to replace lost teeth. This process can happen in as little as 24 hours.
Sharks play a vital role in maintaining the health of the marine ecosystem, they keep the food chain balanced by eating fish. That is why we need to protect them from extinction.
A shark’s sense of smell is a whopping 10,000 times better than ours! Great white sharks can detect a colony of seals from two miles away and can even smell one drop of blood in 100 liters of water.
Sharks do not have bones. Their skeletons are made of cartilage, which is a flexible connective tissue that's also found in the ears and nose of humans. Cartilage is less dense than bone, which helps sharks move quickly through water with less energy.
