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White Shark Pictures |
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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. 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.
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Picture of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa,
Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001444 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as it breaches
out of water to seize imitation seal towed as a lure,
False Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 002880 |
Photo of a a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias killed
by shark hunter Vic Hislop after death of a surfer.
No human remains were found in this shark. Queensland,
Australia
Picture #: 076919 |
Stock photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as
it breaches to attack South African Cape fur
seal pup, Arctocephalus pusillus
pusillus, False
Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 002875 |
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Stock photo of great
white shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, Seal Island, False bay, South
Africa, natural breach on cape fur seal, Arctocephalus
pusillus pusillus, Indian Ocean
Picture #: 058216 |
Photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as
it gorges on carcass of Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera
edeni, ignoring research vessel next to it, False
Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 002534 |
Image of reconstructed
jaws of extinct Carcharodon megalodon, and ancestor
of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, with
adult woman for scale
Picture #: 012664 |
Picture of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa,
Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 087010 |
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Photo of ancient Hawaiian
shark teeth weapons, made out of teeth of various
shark species, particularly those of tiger sharks,
Galeocerdo cuvier, and great white sharks, Carcharodon
carcharias, Hawaii
Picture #: 006152 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, and pilot
fish, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 092745 |
Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa
Picture #: 009781 |
Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Seal
Island, False Bay, South Africa, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 058201 |
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Stock photo of a great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as
it attacks South African Cape fur seal pup,
Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, False Bay, South
Africa
Picture #: 002889 |
Photo of skin, scanning
electron microscope view of dermal denticles or placoid
scales of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Picture #: 014701 |
Image of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, as it breaches
out of water to seize imitation seal towed as a lure,
False Bay, South Africa
Picture #: 002882 |
Picture of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Australia
Picture #: 007207 |
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Picture of a great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, breaches
out of water to seize tuna fish, Guadalupe Islands,
Mexico
Picture #: 073279 |
Image of fossil tooth
of extinct Carcharodon megalodon, ancestor of great
white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Picture #: 005370 |
Photo of a great white
shark, Carcharodon
carcharias,
Seal Island, False bay, South Africa, breach
on seal decoy, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 058196 |
Photo of great white
shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa
Picture #: 010985 |
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