🧠 Sharks Quiz

The hammerhead's wide, flattened head gives it a broad field of vision, with an eye at each end.

Because cartilage is lighter and more flexible than bone, it helps sharks stay agile and buoyant in the water.

Shark Week has become one of television's longest-running annual programming events, drawing huge audiences to shark documentaries every summer.

Amity Island is fictional, but the film was shot on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The ampullae of Lorenzini let sharks sense the tiny electric fields produced by the muscles of hidden prey.

Megalodon's name means 'big tooth', and its fossilised teeth are among the best clues to how enormous it was.

Greenland shark flesh contains toxins that must be removed by fermenting and drying it, which is how Iceland makes hákarl.

The cookiecutter shark uses its bioluminescent underside and sucker-like lips to latch on and carve out neat, round plugs of flesh.

The goblin shark is the sole living member of its genus, Mitsukurina, and can thrust its jaws forward to snatch prey.

Eugenie Clark, the 'Shark Lady', pioneered shark research and showed that sharks could be trained, challenging their reputation as mindless killers.