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White Shark Pictures |
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Great white
sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, are carnivorous,
and primarily eat fish, including rays, tuna, and
smaller sharks, dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses,
seals, fur seals and sea lions, and sometimes sea
turtles. The great
white shark is the largest
predatory fish on Earth, reaching lengths of more
than 20 feet and weighing up 5,000 lb. Great white
sharks have slate-gray upper bodies to blend in with
the rocky coastal sea floor, but get their name from
their white underbellies. They are found
in coastal surface waters throughout the world, with
greater concentrations off the southern coasts of
Australia, off South Africa, California, and Mexico's
Isla Guadalupe. They are streamlined swimmers
with powerful tails that can propel them through
the water at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. Great
whites can leave the water completely, breaching,
when attacking prey from underneath. Their mouths
are lined with up to 3,000 serrated, triangular teeth
arranged in several rows, and they have an exceptional
sense of smell to detect prey. Populations have clearly
declined to a point at which the great white shark
is now considered endangered, due to overfishing
and accidental catching in gill nets.
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Picture of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, breaching
out of water to seize imitation seal towed as a lure,
False Bay, South Africa, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 058190 |
Image of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, silhouette,
South Africa
Picture #: 076893 |
Photo of a Cape fur
seal, Arctocephalus pusillus
pusillus, bleeding from
predatory bite of great white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, South Africa
Picture #: 002657 |
Stock photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, and
scuba divers in shark cage, South Australia, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 001469 |
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Stock photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, detail of cartilage vertebrae
showing growth rings, South Australia
Picture #: 025305 |
Photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Guadalupe
Island, Mexico, Pacific
Picture #: 013488 |
Image of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South
Africa
Picture #: 010983 |
Picture of fossil teeth
of extinct Carcharodon megalodon, contrasted with
tooth of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Picture #: 005514 |
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Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, breaches out of the water to seize
bait, South Africa
Picture #: 011027 |
Image of skin, scanning
electron microscope view of dermal denticles or placoid
scales of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Picture #: 014700 |
Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Neptune Islands,
Australia
Picture #: 011300 |
Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, jawing,
South Africa
Picture #: 009866 |
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Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South
Africa
Picture #: 002911 |
Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in school
of small bait fish, Guadalupe
Island, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 079163 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Spencer Gulf,
South Australia
Picture #: 002906 |
Picture of teeth in
lower jaw of a great white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias
Picture #: 012661 |
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Picture of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as it breaches
out of the water to seize bait at sunset, South Africa
Picture #: 011021 |
Image of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Australia,
Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 001466 |
Photo of a great white
shark, Carcharodon
carcharias,
Seal Island, False bay, South Africa, natural breach
on Cape fur
seal, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, Indian
Ocean
Picture #: 058221 |
Stock photo as underwater
photographer Chip Matheson photographs a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Australia
Picture #: 011134 |
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