Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Sharks mostly eat other marine animals, often invertebrates, or plankton. Their diet consists of small fish ...
These teeth reduce drag and make the shark swim faster. All sharks and rays have teeth – even the ones that eat plankton! But in these filter feeders, the teeth are tiny and not used in feeding.
For comparison, the Museum's giant squid Archie measures in at 8.62 metres long. Despite their enormous size, whale sharks eat tiny planktonic organisms, including copepods, arrow worms, fish eggs, ...
Olympic swimmers have been known to eat 10,000 calories a day, but they have nothing on a tiger shark, which can consume more than that in a single bite. That didn't stop ultra-athlete Ross Edgley ...