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	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Shark
		Shark, any of about 360 species of fishes that, together with the skates, rays, and chimaeras, are sharply distinguished from the vast number of...
		Basking Shark, common name for either of two species of enormous fish belonging to the shark family.
		Cookie-Cutter Shark, small, deep-water shark that uses its powerful jaws and large teeth to bite chunks of flesh from whales and other large marine...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Shark.html (82 words)

	Cookiecutter shark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cookiecutter shark (also known as the Cigar shark or Luminous shark) is a small rarely-seen (Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales) shark which often glows green and grows up to 20 inches long.
		The Cookiecutter shark derived its name from its habit of removing small circular chunks of flesh from (Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head) whales and large (Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills) fish.
		Cookiecutter sharks reproduce through (additional info and facts about aplacental viviparity) aplacental viviparity in the same way as (Large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans) great white sharks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cookiecutter_shark.htm (224 words)

	Shark at exZOOberance!
		Sharks are perhaps best known for their short, powerful, hinged jaws and multiple rows of sharp, triangular teeth, which they use to crush or tear pieces of flesh from their prey.
		Shark skin, with its microscopic teethlike scales, was once used as a fine grade of sandpaper, and when the scales are removed from the skin to make shark leather, it brings high prices for use in shoes, belts, and handbags.
		The bull shark, blue shark, tiger shark, common lemon shark, dusky shark, sandbar shark, and the reef white tip shark belong to the requiem family, Carcharhinidae, and are classified as Carcharhinus leucas, Prionace glauca, Galeocerdo cuvier, Negaprion brevirostris, Carcharhinus obscurus, Carcharhinus plumbeus, and Triaeonodon obesus, respectively.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20swim/shark/shark.htm (4381 words)

	Shedd Aquarium
		Cookie cutter sharks live in the depths of all the oceans near the equator where the water is warm.
		Because cookie cutter sharks live so deep in the ocean, they are hard for large fishing boats to target.
		Sharks reproduce slowly, bear few young at a time, have a long gestation period, and many swim great distances to find a mate.
	www.sheddaquarium.org /sea/fact_sheets.cfm?id=66 (1339 words)

	Deep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most kinds of sharks that live in the deep sea are less than six feet long and many produce light.
		However, this shark is most often seen at the surface attracted by leftovers thrown overboard by fishing boats.
		It is one of the three kinds of sharks that feed on plankton.
	www.promotega.org /ksu00019/shark.htm (376 words)

	Strange Looking Sharks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The megamouth shark was first seen in 1976 by accident when it became entangled with a US Navy ship's anchor.
		This shark was named after the neat cookie shaped wounds it leaves on the bodies of larger fish.
		Cookie Cutters have been known to feed on whales and dolphins, so basically, this shark will eat anything.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p935.htm (616 words)

	Types of Sharks
		is the largest shark and also the largest fish in the sea, measuring up to 15 m (49 ft) in length; the cookie-cutter shark measures less than 50 cm (19 in) in length.
		Although the whale shark is the largest, it feeds on tiny creatures called "plankton" which it gets by straining the water through it's large mouth.
		The hammerhead shark, distinguished by its hammer-shaped head, is perhaps the most recognizable of the sharks.
	www.beenet.net /rpenland/typesof.htm (504 words)

	KiteCD - Animals - fish, shark
		Since sharks reproduce at a much slower rate and mature more slowly than bony fish, it is important that people are careful not to deplete the shark population to a point where it can not be recovered.
		The shark with the longest tail is the thresher shark.
		Sharks and Their Relatives by Seaworld includes the anatomy of a shark, information about their habitats, behavior and more, plus it offers a lesson about sharks appropriate for grades 4-8.
	members.aol.com /KiteCD2/an_FShark.htm (1438 words)

	Squaliformes: Dogfish Sharks
		The squaliform sharks are creatures of extremes: in size they range from the puny to the downright gigantic, they inhabit a wide range of depths, from sundappled shallows to the chill flness of the abyss, and their taxonomy is a veritable morass of contention and tentative revision.
		In any case, since all sharks have a similar body plan and life history, 6 inches may be close to the theoretical minimum size for adult sharks.
		The most brightly bioluminescent of all sharks, the Cookie-cutter acts like a pint-sized vampire: seducing its unsuspecting prey with its curious greenish glow, latching onto its prey with specialized suctorial lips and large, mobile basihyal ('tongue'), then using its bandsaw-like lower teeth to scoop out a conical plug of flesh.
	www.elasmo-research.org /education/shark_profiles/squaliformes.htm (1725 words)

	Cookie-cutter Shark, Isistius brasiliensis
		The Cookie-cutter Shark is named after the neat cookie-shaped wounds that it leaves on the bodies of larger fishes (Goblin Shark, Escolar) and marine mammals.
		The Cookie-cutter Shark attaches itself to its prey with its suctorial lips, and then spins to cut out a cookie-shaped plug of flesh from the larger animal.
		Widder, E.A. A predatory use of counterillumination by the squaloid shark, Isistius brasiliensis.
	www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/ibrasil.htm (430 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cookie
		Cookie, in computer science, a small text file created by individual Web site servers and sent to an Internet user’s browser where it is stored on the...
		Scientific classification: Sharks belong to the class Chondrichthyes.
		The whale shark is classified as Rhincodon typus and the bull shark (or Zambezi...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cookie.html (98 words)

	Large-tooth Cookie-cutter Shark, Isistius plutodus
		The Large-tooth Cookie-cutter Shark has a cigar-shaped body, a short conical snout and two low, spineless dorsal fins.
		It has a row of 19 huge teeth (proportionately the largest of any shark species) in the lower jaw.
		The 363 mm long female shark in the image was trawled at a depth of about 100 m by the FV Teresa off Newcastle, New South Wales in 1988.
	www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/iplutodus.htm (281 words)

	cookie-cutter shark attack! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One was of a very nasty-looking sharp-toothed critter (which looked nothing a shark); and the other was of the damage done.
		They are generally moderate to deep-water sharks (depending on the species), and Braziliensis is thought to make a daily migration of 1 mile--that is up and down.
		These sharks are poorly built as swimmers, at least compared to the predators that they seem to attack.
	users2.ev1.net /~rickubis/cookie.html (1272 words)

	Colley's Fins to Feathers Photo Safaris
		This little monster is called a cookie cutter shark and a little monster it is to its prey.
		This shark is almost invisible from the underside, using luminescents, except for a dark spot on its throat.
		The drawings of the Cookie Cutter shark are by Tiffany Patterson who is a talented young artist and has also created the new artwork for the signs at the Convention Center Boardwalk.
	www.fin2feather.com /articles/parade10-03.html (645 words)

	Cold Fire in the Sea - Bioluminescence
		The pattern of photophores is species- and gender-specific, allowning Green Laternsharks to recognize others of their kind and to co-ordinate schooling and mating behaviors in the flness of the deep-sea.
		Evidence suggests that the bright green bioluminescence of this 30-cm-long dogfish lures large fishes and cetaceans closer to investigate the glow as a potential meal.
		The shark then twists about - aided by the flow of water over its moving prey - and slices out a conical plug of flesh.
	www.elasmo-research.org /education/topics/p_biolumenescence.htm (1736 words)

	USATODAY.com - Shark sighting on Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Sharks: Size Matters (July 30), deGruy explores some of the least known and strangest sharks, such as the one he calls the "cookie cutter shark," which glows in the dark and rises each night to take strange scoop-like bites out of much larger sharks.
		Underwater photographer Valerie De La Valdene drifts from her friends and from land to be surrounded by sharks off the Galapagos Islands, her camera capturing the harrowing experience.
		Scientist Erich Ritter's shark bite attack in the Bahamas was the centerpiece of last year's Anatomy of a Shark Bite.
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/2004-07-22-shark-week_x.htm (806 words)

	Science News Online (8/1/98): Glow-in-the-dark shark has killer smudge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Viewed from beneath, the soft glow from the shark's many light-emitting cells blends in with dim light filtering from the sky and disguises the predator's outline.
		If the tuna has the misfortune to attack what looks like a school of little fish but is actually a school of cookie-cutters, "the damage these sharks inflict would make their company as appealing as a swarm of wasps," Widder observes.
		The shark strategy, however, is "a new twist," she notes.
	www.sciencenews.org /sn_arc98/8_1_98/fob5.htm (512 words)

	strangesh
		This sharks reacts to danger by sucking in water and air to greatly increase its size...
		This shark is the smallest shark in the world, growing to a length of 250mm (9.8 inches).
		With their flattened bodies, these sharks are often mistaken for rays.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/gclark/strange.htm (603 words)

	Sharks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Grey shark with fl-tips on the ends of it's fins in both adults and young.
		Caribbean Reef shark is a distinct grey or grey-brown colour with a white underbelly.
		If we put sharks on a scale from 1 to 10, one being the least deadliest to humans, and ten being the deadliest, the Great White would be a 10.
	www.divecharters.com /sharka_l.htm (3108 words)

	Science News: Glow-in-the-dark shark has killer smudge - dark patch on cookie-cutter shark attracts prey - Brief Article
		Widder's discussion of the cookie-cutter shark's dark patch is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Environmental Biology of Fishes.
		The cookie-cutter shark has carried this phenomenon, called counterillumination, to an unusual degree of refinement, she says.
		All the shark has to do is sit, wait, and glow.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n5_v154/ai_21015202 (602 words)

	11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Horn sharks are named because of their thick, compact heads and short, pig like snouts.
		The Cookie Cutter shark is one of the smallest sharks and is named after the neat cookie-shaped wounds that it leaves on the bodies of larger fishes.
		If a tuna swims into a school of these sharks, the damage they inflict would make their company as appealing as a swarm of wasps.
	www.pawpaw.k12.mi.us /cedarstreet/0kidkorner/sh/w11.htm (242 words)

	National Wildlife: Optical Illusion
		With small fins and relatively little muscle, the foot-long cookie-cutter shark has the classic traits of a sit-and-wait predator: It simply doesn't have the power to chase down prey.
		Only one dark patch on the underside of the small shark is visible, and Widder presents a convincing argument that the creature uses it as a lure.
		Not only is the patch the size of prey chased down by bigger animals such as tuna, the cookie-cutter has a relatively huge jaw perfectly suited to take a chunk out of a large, fast-moving fish.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1169/is_1998_Dec-Jan/ai_53731220 (276 words)

	Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
		Le Boeuf, B.J. Hunting and migratory movements of white sharks in the eastern North Pacific.
		Crater wounds on northern elephant seals: the cookie cutter shark strikes again.
		Shark predation on pinnipeds in California coastal waters.
	research.ucsc.edu /lb_publish.html (3378 words)

	Shark, shark fishing, shark vacuum cleaner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Emphasis is on sharks in the Mediterranean (including the white shark) and in the...
		Shark Shield is an electronic shark deterrent that allows both water sport professionals and...
		A 14-year-old girl was killed Saturday in a shark attack near a campground on the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said.
	www.bigcreditreport.com /shark.html (897 words)

	Shark Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These small sharks swim up to large animals like blue whales and used their specialized mouth to cut out chunks of flesh in the same way cookie cutters cut shapes out of dough.
		USE YOUR HEAD: Draw or paint a picture of a shark that is specialized for a particular diet (it doesn't have to be a real shark species, just something you make up), and explain how the shark's features help it eat.
		Then, draw a real shark and do the same thing (some sharks that eat interesting things are nurse sharks, whale sharks, horn sharks and basking sharks).
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /nceas-web/kids/experiments/center/sharkact.html (383 words)

	Bizzard Animal: Cookie Cutter Shark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The #1 “The Most: eXtreme” biter was the cookie cutter shark.
		The white marks on the previously unidentifed beaked whale below are bites from this shark.
		i may only be 14years old but i have a verry big intrest in sharks and i personaly think the cookie cutter shark is the most: addaptid, cunning,and intresting shark of them all
	middaysoftware.com /MinhsBlogs/archive/2004/09/17/179.aspx (388 words)

	Ocean Watch
		The cookie-cutter shark, for instance, is a small fish with little muscle or fin power to chase down big prey.
		One small patch on the shark's belly, however, has no light organs and thus remains dark.
		When a big, fast-moving fish comes close to check it out, the waiting shark strikes, getting a mouthful of flesh and leaving a cookie-size hole.
	starbulletin.com /1999/01/04/news/oceanwatch.html (590 words)

	Books for Cryptozoology
		In his introduction, Ellis apologizes for having to omit many possible entries, but his rationale of selectivity is realistic for the scope of the book--he includes many of the big animals and then includes unusual or representative examples of lesser known animal groups.
		Thus, all the whales and dolphins and sea turtles are included, along with many sharks and cephalopods, and a large number of fishes (mainly those that have economic importantance, are commonly encountered by people, or are unusual).
		Bright admits that whale sharks are often struck by boat propellers but states rhetorically "[w]hether [the bites] were made before or after the big cut cannot be ascertained." Clearly, the discovery of a severed whale shark tail does not imply that C.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz050/czbooks.html (11776 words)

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