July Newsletter

Guess who has the most powerful jaw on the planet?

SHARKS have the most powerful jaw on the planet! Although sharks have the most powerful jaw, they cannot chew their own food. A shark bites its food with its lower jaw first and then its upper jaw. It tosses its head back and forth to tear loose a piece of meat which it swallows whole. Sharks never run out of teeth and they can grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime! But not all sharks use their jaws to eat meat. Some sharks are actually quite harmless! Oddly enough, the most harmless sharks tend to be the largest! The basking shark, the whale shark, and the megamouth sharks all fit this description. These huge sharks eat plankton, a tiny shrimp-like creature found in the ocean.
The perception of sharks as dangerous animals has been popularized by the popular fictional works about shark attacks, such as the Jaws film series. So, next time you go to the beach and are scared of going in the ocean because of sharks, don’t be. Sharks aren’t there to hurt you.

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