The world's most dangerous animal. An adult Carcharodon carcharias can grow up to 23 feet in length, weigh 7,000 pounds and live more than 20 years. The Great White is found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Oceanic Islands and the Indian Ocean. The Great White has been known to eat people but it prefers tuna, seals, sea lions, other sharks, small whales, otters, sea turtles and sea birds. This shark is considered very dangerous to man.
Hammerheads are distinctive sharks whose heads have evolved to look like hammers.
The head is flattened and extended to either side with the eyes set on the outer edges. Sphyrnidae grows to 14 feet, is gray with a pale underside and is considered dangerous to man. The Galapagos shark likes to hang out near islands which have clear waters, rocky beds and uneven coral. This shark is considered very dangerous to man. Rodale's Scuba Diving magazine recently asked its readers where to go for the best big shark encounters in the world.