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- What is the scientific name for the shark family?
- What are the sharks called in Finding Nemo?
- What was the first shark?
- What are baby sharks called?
- What are the 8 orders of sharks?
- What is fish scientific name?
- What is a full form of shark?
- Was Jaws a megalodon?
- What killed megalodon?
- Are megalodon's real?
What is the scientific name for the shark family?
Sharks belong to the Class Chondrichthyes. This includes all fish that have a skeleton made of cartilage. They're further divided into two Sub-classes. Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and Holocephali (chimaera).
What are the sharks called in Finding Nemo?
Bruce's supposedly fish-tolerant shark friends, Chum and Anchor, are a mako shark and a hammerhead shark, respectively. It's worth pointing out that most sharks hunt alone, so Chum, Anchor, and Bruce would probably not be hanging out together.
What was the first shark?
Cladoselache is regarded as the first "true shark". It lived 380 million years ago and it still retained a few characteristics of its fishy ancestors. It had a fish-like head, seven gills instead of five like most sharks, and its body was longer and less muscular than the sharks we see today.
What are baby sharks called?
A baby shark is referred to as a pup.
What are the 8 orders of sharks?
There are hundreds of species of sharks, and they all fit into eight distinct orders: Carcharhiniformes, Heterodontiformes, Hexanchiformes, Lamniformes, Orectolobiformes, Pristiophoriformes, Squaliformes, and Squatiniformes.
What is fish scientific name?
Originally Answered: What is the scientific name of fish? Osteichthyes is the Latin name of the bony fish class. Chondrichthyes is the Latin name of the cartilaginous fish class. Acanthodii is the Latin name of the class of extinct fishes that share features both with bony and cartilaginous fishes.
What is a full form of shark?
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
Was Jaws a megalodon?
A new study from the University of Bristol and Swansea University has calculated the total body size of the Otodus megalodon - the distant ancestor of the great white shark depicted in hit blockbuster, Jaws, in 1975. ...
What killed megalodon?
Fossil evidence suggests that megalodons went extinct before about 2.6 million years ago, during a period of cooling and drying in many parts of the world. These changes may have been related to the closing of the seaways separating North from South America and Eurasia from Africa.
Are megalodon's real?
Megalodon (Otodus megalodon), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.
