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It is Tuesday and of course that means creature day and this week we have the Hammerhead Shark and there is no wondering how it got his name. It's wide set eyes are mallet-shaped head are used to find and attack nailing them to the sea floor.
Covering its expansive snout are thousands of sensory organs called the “ampullae of lorenzini” they use them to detect the electrical fields created by prey.
This is useful for hunting down its favourite meal, stingrays which usually bury themselves under the sand. It is consider dangerous to humans.
The species reaches an average length of 13.1 feet (4 m) and weight of 500 pounds (230 kg). 2. The longest great hammerhead shark ever recorded was 20 feet (6.1 m) long, and the heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded was 991 pounds (450 kg).
They are certainly the oddest looking sharks! :)
ReplyDeleteThey can be very large creatures.
ReplyDeleteGees, they are SCARY looking.
ReplyDeleteRita......That they are
ReplyDeleteMargaret....Indeed
Katie.......They are
I so wanted to get a plastic hammerhead from a box of some cereal that was giving out odd sea creatures. I got an Oarfish...
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