We’ve come to the last week of the SUMMER OF THE SHARK! And finally, meet the Zebra Shark (a.k.a. the “spotted beauty” of the reef)!They can be found from the Red Sea and East Africa all the way to Fiji, Japan, and Australia. Their favorite snacks are Mollusks small bony fish. They can live up to 28 years and are about 5–6 feet long — with a tail nearly as long as their body!Did you know that Zebra sharks are night owls — they do their hunting after dark. Zebra Shark babies start with dark strip

A diver came across an endangered shark just feet away while off the coast of the Spanish island of El Hierro earlier this month. The dive center that posted the video said that smalltooth sand tiger sharks, an endangered species, only appear “intermittently” in the area, and that this is the first time they’ve come across one since 2019. According to the IUCN, smalltooth sand tiger sharks are “rarely recorded from the Atlantic Ocean.” Since 1991, there have only been 18 records from the nearby