Lamniformes

commonly known as the Great White Shark, is the outspoken king of the ocean. They are a nektonic organism. Every organism has a full biological classification. The Kingdom is Animalia, the Phylum is Chordata, the Class is Chrondrichtyes, the order is Lamniformes, the Family is Lamnidae, the Genus is Carcharodon, and the Species is the Carcharias. The Great White Shark has a robust, torpedo shaped body, a hefty, conical snout. It has a white underside and a gray or brownish blue dorsal area. There are five

With a body like a torpedo and a mouth like a black hole, it’s nearly impossible to not think about this miraculous predator as you float on the surface of the great blue sea. Even though the great white is virtually the perfect predator, an attack on a human is unlikely and for the attack to be fatal is even more unlikely. Being at the top of the food chain the shark has few threats. Orcas and larger sharks are their only fear. Ironically, human interaction poses the biggest threat to the sharks

Same as every species, the White Shark is classified into major groups. This is called taxonomy. The taxonomy for this species is Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Sub-Phylum: Vertebrata Class: Chrondrichthyes Sub-Class: Elasmobranchii Order: Lamniformes Family: Lamnidae Genus: Carcharodon Species: C. carcharias The kingdom Animalia means animal. The phylum Chordata includes animals with vertebrates. The class Chrondrichthyes includes cartilaginous fish, which are fish that has a skeleton made

Maverick Wagner Evolution 2/20/15 Evolution of the Carcharodon carcharias (Great White Shark) Did you know that sharks appeared in the fossil record about 450 million years ago (Natural History Museum, N.D.)? Since we know that sharks have existed for 450 million years we know that they have had to survive many mass extinctions. In these mass extinctions many of the predators that preyed on sharks were killed off. These mass extinctions that the sharks were able to survive gave them

8 Characteristics of Life as shown by the Carcharodon carcharias Great White Shark Rachel Kaveney 10/14/14 Biology I H (8) Introduction "You 're gonna need a bigger boat." This famous line from the blockbuster movie, Jaws, says it all. If the police chief wants to find and kill a Great White Shark, which has gone rogue in a small New England inlet, then a bigger boat was absolutely necessary. This 1975 movie stirred fear of both sharks and the deep, unknown ocean in many a movie-goer

Normally when the word shark is heard a picture of only one comes to mind. The Great White Shark which is widely known, due to the portrayal of their aggressive behavior in the “Jaws” movie series. But in actuality, Mako Sharks are a more skilled predator. Although Mako Sharks and Great White Sharks are both similar, there are a plethora of differences in speed, diet, and size. Mako Sharks are the second fastest out of all sea life in the ocean. Besides being trumped by the Sailfish the Mako is the

The ocean covers 70% of the whole world! And still only 5% has been discovered. Scientists have been trying many different ways to try to discover more of the ocean, but have trouble getting to the bottom. Join us to discover more of the ocean, and learn about creatures you didn’t even know existed. As a lot of people know only 5% of the whole entire ocean has been discovered, and the ocean covers more than 70% of the world! Many creatures have been discovered as we unlock more and more secrets

Initially, data was collected over a thirty year period from the Global Shark Attack File to examine the shark bite prevalence of both provoked and unprovoked shark bites. The data was extracted from the year 1982 up until 2011 and examined shark bite deaths, bites that caused injury, and bites that caused no injury. This study will only examine unprovoked shark bites where someone has chosen to enter ocean and has not done anything to purposefully provoke the shark. Mannerisms that are being considered

Whales are large aquatic mammals. Like every other animal they did not start off like that. Whales came to be after millions of years of evolution. Every aspect of the current whale was decided by nature. The blowhole, dorsal fins, lack of teeth and tail fluke all came from years of other creatures such as the Mesonychids and many other animals. The first ancestors of whales lived on land. They had feet instead of fins and quite often had individual toes. From their fossils we can gather that they

Cape Cod: Beached Great White Saved by Beachgoers An encounter with a shark is not something that many people really want to experience. The movie Jaws definitely put the fear of the ocean into many people. Sharks have been all over the media lately; Shark Week on the Discovery Channel just ended, and several attacks have been reported over the last few months. However, on a happier note, a beached Great White was saved this weekend in Cape Cod by beachgoers who sympathized with the struggling animal