Sharks

Joe BargerScience IIIDecember 10, 1999The Tiger sharks name derives from the distinctive dark bands that run from the top of its back down along its sides. The stripes are very evident in younger sharks because the stripes start to fade away as it ages, then turning a gray or brownish color. However, all of the…

Description of Tiger SharksInformation about Tiger sharks is rare in books so most of this paper will be about sharks in general. The Tiger Shark’s Latin name is Galeocerdo cuvier. Sharks are a member of the fish family. There are over 350 species of sharks. Sharks can be as big as 49 feet long (whale…

Although sharks belong to the class Chondrichtyes, there are manydifferent types. Sharks arose about 350 million years ago and have remainedvirtually unchanged for the past 70 million years and still comprise a dominantgroup. It is thought that sharks almost certainly evolved from placoderms, agroup of primitive jawed fishes. It took a long series of successful…

One of my favorite places is to fish is on the shore at Ocean City, Maryland. The beach is about an hour and 15 minutes away from my house in Carroll County, Maryland. Ever since I was little, I would frequently visit the beach. I loved how many different things there were. Some of the…

One interpretation of Watson and the Shark that takes some precedence over the rest was appended to the painting itself, probably by its owner. The label describes the painting as “shewing that a high sense of INTEGRITY and RECTITUDE with a firm reliance on an over ruling PROVIDENCE [. . . ] are the sources…