This once tranquil region is now a place of nightmares. Then one day a brave group of heroes get together to hunt down the lethal shark putting an end to the nightmare. Does the scene seem familiar? Hollywood has portrayed this scene many times in its movies. They paint them as savage killing machines, bloodthirsty animals that are addicted to killing humans and will do anything to satiate its appetite. But is this portrayal true? Are sharks really like we just mention? Or is this only something we imagine? To answer this question first we have to learn some facts about sharks, here are a few.
What is the first thing that pops into your mind when someone pronounces the word shark? Probably the first thing that you think about is the image of a Great White Shark, but did you know that sharks come in many shapes and sizes? The Ocean makes around seventy percent of planet Earth and about twenty thousand species of fishes call it their home. Out all the species of fishes found in the world’s Oceans nearly four hundred of them are sharks (Census Of Marine Life, 2003; World Wild Life, n.d.). Even do sharks come in many forms they all have something in common, they are