Portal:Sharks/Did you know/2
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- ... that the whitetip reef shark may have contributed to the Hawaiian myth of ʻaumākua, family guardian spirits, due to the "loyalty" of sharks that stay in the same area for years?
- ... that individual smalltooth sand tigers have been documented returning to the same location off Lebanon every summer?
- ...that Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico?
- ... that during the summer the finetooth shark is found exclusively in water less than 10 m (30 ft) deep?
- ... that the Canary Islands are one of the few places left where there are still substantial numbers of angelsharks, once common all around Europe?
- ...that whilst most sharks are poikilothermic, species in the family Lamnidae are homeothermic?