Top 10 Biggest Types of Sharks in the World

Here’s a list of biggest types of sharks in the world. A shark is a type of fish with highly streamlined body and full cartilaginous skeleton. Sharks is known as the biggest fish and the scariest animal that lives in water. Here are the list of the biggest types of sharks that ever in the world.

10. Bigeye Thresher Shark
Bigeye Thresher shark species can be found in the equatorial ocean regions of the world, and can be found at a depth of 1650 feet on the seabed. Bigeye Thresher Shark has a characteristic purplish gray and can live long and 15.1 feet to reach the big 795 lbs (360.60 kg).

Bigeye Thresher Shark

9. Bluntnose Sixgill Shark

Shark Bluntnose Sixgill are the 9th biggest shark in the world and is often known as the cow sharks. Sharks Bluntnose Sixgill is the kind of family Hexanchidae; Most species of sharks are now extinct relatives. These sharks can live up to 15.8 feet long, but this shark is bigger than ever seen.

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark

8. Thresher Shark

Almost similar to the Bigeye Thresher Shark, is a big breed that can live shark 18 feet long. Sharks usually live in his world of equatorial sea waters. Thresher sharks are often seen ‘slim’ but do not be fooled by his deception, because these sharks can weigh up to 1100 lbs (498.95 kg).


7. Great hammerhead Shark

Great Hammerhe is the biggest shark of all types of hammerhead sharks that can live to 20 feet. Great Hammerheads can be found in all the world like a shark – sharks that live in equatorial waters. Great hammerhead shark in the biggest ever caught by man is the kind of female weighing 1280 lbs (580.59 kg).

Great Hammerhead Shark

6.Greenland Shark

Shark Greenland Shark with latin name Somniosus Microcephalus or was known by the ‘sleeper shark’, ‘gurry shark’, ground shark ‘,’ gray shark ‘or’ Inuit Eqalussuaq. This shark is a shark that big and can be found around the northern Atlantic waters, especially many in the near Greenland and Iceland. Greenland tend to live in the depths of 6600 feet below sea level, but this Greenland shark ever caught on camera as low as 24 feet of shallow sea.

Greenland Shark

5. Pacific Sleeper Shark

Pacific Sleeper sharks are other sharks that can live weight over 23 feet and weigh up to 800 lbs (362.87 kg). One thing that makes this attractive shark species is that they are one of the few shark species that can be found in low temperature areas (areas facing kutup). Another thing it is that they usually live in deep ocean, with depths up to 6500 feet below sea level.

Pasific Sleeper Shark

4. Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark is able to live so that 2000 lbs (907.18 kg) and known to be very popular with cruelty. It is not only eating all kinds of marine life, but they (Tiger) is also famous for attacking swimmers. As the name implies, this shark is very similar to the style of tigers, they usually live in the territorial waters of the equatorial world but more likely in the vicinity Pacific .

Tiger Shark

3. Great White Shark

Great White Shark, Carcharodon Carcharias, is one of the savagest shark in the world. This shark can live long and weighing up to 26.2 feet 5000 lbs (2267.96 kg). Great White Shark was the last of the type species of shark, Carcharodon.

Great White Shark

2.Basking Shark

Basking sharks are one of a very large sharks and basking sharks to make this position into the second largest shark world. Basking sharks can live 40 feet long and never get caught with a weight of up to 19 tons, But despite the huge shark, this species tends to slow and not the alias predator predators.

Basking Shark

1. Whale Shark

Whale Shark is the biggest sharks in the world. Although large, whale sharks is also not the same predators as basking sharks, they are slow-moving shark who just ate ‘phytoplankton’ or very small animals that live in the sea. The whale shark can live to 41 feet and weigh up to 15 tons.

Whale Shark in Aquarium

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