Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful― God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. Peter Benchley
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Sharks are very fascinating in many ways. They are the only fish known to have eyes on the sides of their heads. Their bodies are made up of soft cartilage that is fused with their skeleton. Some scientists talk about the shark as a “living fossil,” because its characteristics are similar to those of early fish that were around before the dinosaurs came into being.

Sharks are also an extremely diverse group of animals, with nearly two hundred and fifty species in the ocean alone. This means that they have a great deal of variety within their own kind, which is an amazing testament to how adaptable sharks have been over time.

Source: Jaws

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