ITS BODY

SKELETON

-Sharks are flexible because they have skeletons made of cartlage, not bones.

SIZE

- Sharks can be from 15 centimetres to 15 metres (a bus)

This is an example of the size of sharks compared to a person.


FINS

- Most sharks have eight fins.


SKIN

- The skin has scales.The top of the sharks is dark colour and the bottom is light colour for camouflage.

TEETH

- They have sharp teeth and they have replacement teeth.

- Sometimes they have thirty thousand (30,000) or more teeth in their life.

This is a photograph of replacement teeth.