Have you Heard of the Pocket Shark?

I recently went to a lecture about sharks.
It was really good. Check out their website!

25% of sharks and rays face extinction. I never knew sharks were in such trouble. Though I'm not really surprised since humans have been devastating all corners of the globe. And only 3% of the ocean is fully protected. The ocean covers 3/4 of the earth, yet so much of it is free to destroy.

100 million sharks are killed a year, mostly for their fins. Sharks are caught, and their fins are hacked off often while the animal is still alive. Then they're thrown back into the ocean dead or dying. They can't survive without their fins, even if they manage to survive the process.
And many big mature sharks are killed just so people can take photos standing next to their corpses. This is often illegal, but that doesn't stop people from doing it anyway.

On the flip side, sharks only kill 5 humans every year. Compare that to car deaths.

Remember, fish are friends. Not just food.


Did you know that magnets can be made into shark deterrents? It messes with the way sharks sense electrical signals. They can sense the electricity coming off of animals. Isn't that cool? The deterrent gives that system a shock somehow, like one of those dog collars that's connected to a fenceless yard. (These don't work for great white sharks though, because great whites attack fast enough that they don't have a chance to stop before the deterrent hits them).
Great whites travel 2,500 miles. They're awesome too.

I think my favorite shark is the leopard shark.

(I saw this guy at an aquarium)
But I just learned about the pocket shark. It's like a living Pokémon. LOOK IT UP. It's so cute. It looks like it could walk around on its nubby little feet fins.