The Book of SharksMagnificently illustrated and written by the country's foremost painter of marine natural history and subjects, The Book of Sharks is a comprehensive study of the 200 species that populate the oceans of the world. 200 illustrations, 20 in color. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 6 |
CONFESSIONS OF A SHARK PAINTER | 13 |
THE EVOLUTION OF SHARKS | 20 |
Copyright | |
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animal Aquarium Atlantic Australia Baldridge basking shark Beach behavior Bigelow and Schroeder bite blue shark boat bony fishes brown bull shark cage California Carcharhinus carcharias Carcharodon catsharks caudal caught coast COLOR creature dark denticles divers diving dorsal fin Durban elasmobranchs Etmopterus eyes feeding feet long female film fishermen Florida Frank Mundus game fish Genus gill slits Gimbel gray hammerheads head Island Isurus known large sharks largest lemon sharks leucas lobe mackerel sharks mako man-eater MAXIMUM LENGTH megalodon milberti mouth nurse shark ocean Odontaspis Pacific pectoral fins Perry Gilbert photographs porbeagle pounds predator prey RANGE record reef shark REMARKS Research retifer Rodney Fox SAN DIEGO sandbar shark Shark Attack Shark Attack File snout South Africa species of sharks specimen spiny dogfish Stewart Springer surface swimmers swimming swordfish tail teeth thresher tiger shark tion tooth underwater vertebrate whale white shark whitetip wrote