Great White
Carcharodon carcharias
A warm-muscled ocean hunter with rows of replacement teeth.
Great Whites are powerful, wide-ranging sharks that patrol coasts and offshore waters around the world. Dark backs hide them from above while pale bellies blend with the bright surface from below.
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Blue Water Deck
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Creature passport
- Home
- Cool-temperate and subtropical coastal and offshore waters worldwide.
- Favorite foods
- Fishes, rays, other sharks, seals, sea lions, and carrion.
- Size check
- Up to about 20 ft (6 m) — longer than a family car
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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A Great White's skeleton is cartilage, not bone.
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Rows of new teeth rotate forward when old teeth are lost.
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Some launch completely out of the water while chasing fast prey.
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They can travel thousands of miles across open ocean.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
Heat-producing muscles keep key body parts warmer than the surrounding sea.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
Notice a cone-shaped snout and a sharp gray-to-white color boundary.
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