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| | Contents | - Researchers have shot footage of Orcas (killer whales) attacking and killing great white sharks.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - When baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Sharks are capable of surviving on average six weeks without eating. The record observed in an aquarium is fifteen months by a species of shark known as the "swell shark."
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Sharks are so powerful that their bite can generate a force of up to 18 tons per square inch.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The skin of a shark is made up of "tiny teeth" which are called dermal denticles.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 days.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Every year, 100 million sharks are killed by people.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - More people die from eating sharks then from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in shark meat.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years.
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