12. The Cookiecutter Shark: Doesn't look like much, given its small size. But guess how it gets its name? Its teeth are set in a circular jaw, so that when it bites you it takes out a cookie ...
Almost all of the orcas were scarred with bite marks from cookiecutter sharks – a small, cigar-shaped species of shark which lives in the open oceans. These marks led the team to deduce that the ...
It’s the Friday edition of the 9 at 9 – and we’re still recovering from yesterday’s downer of a segment. We’ll lift your sprits today tho!
Not all sharks kill the animals they feed on. The cookiecutter shark, a small species about 43 to 56 centimetres long, is so named because it feeds by biting mouthfuls of flesh out of larger animals.