NATURE lifts part of the veil of mystery shrouding some fascinating — and often fearsome — creatures in The Secret World of Sharks and Rays.
Sharks and their biological cousins, the rays, are among the highest-profile denizens of the deep, thanks to the popularity of books and films that have cast them in leading roles — as antagonist, not protagonist.
But despite such worldwide media glare, sharks and rays are among the least-understood creatures that inhabit the world’s oceans. It’s a paradox: a high public profile overshadowing a relatively low level of knowledge about these primordial fish, whose existence pre-dates the emergence of humans by some 400 million years.
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Online content for The Secret World of Sharks and Rays was originally posted March 2003.
Great work, the sharks need all the help they can get right now, a lot of species on the brink of extinction. The only hope seems to be to educate the world’s population about just how important sharks are to the oceans ecosystem and this is how you do it. To learn more about sharks here is a website that will help you. http://www.sharks.org.za
i am fascinated by sharks it’s weird.
i absolutely love themmm.
does any one think it’s possible
to go swimming with them like you
can with dolphins and not get atttacked ?
I think that sharks are pretty cool but i wouldn’t wanna get up close and personal with one.
you guys are nerds
I hate peeplz who kill sharks…… they nevr did anything to u so I dnt get it??? Why in the fuc**** world wuld they do that.
sharks are the flippin best
how do sharks hunt
Sharks are awesome but at http://www.mpkrsolutions.com
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I think it is not only heartbreaking but shocking that we(all life on planet earth) have come to this point. Everyone must ask themselves: Are we not the invasive species heavily tilting the biodiversity scale?