Biggest creatures on the planet May 27, 2019
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Started by metmike - May 26, 2019, 8:38 p.m.


#13 on this list, as we count up to bigger animals.

Great White Shark

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One of the most feared predators in the world thanks to Hollywood, Great Whites can grow to be over 6 meters long and yes, they have been known to attack humans, boats, and basically anything else that floats.

Great white shark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark


The novel Jaws by Peter Benchley and its subsequent film adaptation by Steven Spielberg depicted the great white shark as a "ferocious man eater". Humans are not the preferred prey of the great white shark,[17] but the great white is nevertheless responsible for the largest number of reported and identified fatal unprovoked shark attacks on humans.[18]


In 2008, a team of scientists led by Stephen Wroe conducted an experiment to determine the great white shark's jaw power and findings indicated that a specimen massing 3,324 kg (7,328 lb) could exert a bite force of 18,216 newtons (4,095 lbf).


Humans are not appropriate prey because the shark's digestion is too slow to cope with a human's high ratio of bone to muscle and fat. Accordingly, in most recorded shark bite incidents, great whites broke off contact after the first bite. Fatalities are usually caused by blood loss from the initial bite rather than from critical organ loss or from whole consumption. From 1990 to 2011 there have been a total of 139 unprovoked great white shark bite incidents, 29 of which were fatal.[118]

However, some researchers have hypothesized that the reason the proportion of fatalities is low is not because sharks do not like human flesh, but because humans are often able to escape after the first bite. 

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By metmike - May 26, 2019, 8:40 p.m.
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Two great white sharks surface near the Outer Banks



https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/north-carolina/outer-banks/two-great-white-sharks-surface-near-the-outer-banks/291-b20a3623-e37f-4a04-ade0-cff378cafc42


NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, two great white sharks made a stop at the Outer Banks.

OCEARCH, a non-profit organization that researches great white sharks and other large apex predators, proved it.