Sharks are sublime

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Whitetip reef shark, Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Photo by Jeff Rotman

2.

Baby blacktip reef sharks, Aow Luk, Koh Tao, Thailand
three-minute, thirty-seven second source video at Youtube (autoplay)

3.

Whale shark, Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Photo by Peter Oxford

4.

Whale sharks feeding, off Papua, Indonesia
Photo by Michael Aw
From Whale Sharks: Nat Geo documents unusual feeding behavior

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Hey, there’s a hole in your net! SLURRRRP

5.

School of hammerhead sharks

6.

Great white shark and sea lion off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Photo by Marc Henauer
(It turned out better than you’d think.)

7.

Kelp forest exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, USA
Photo by X5-442 at DeviantArt

8.

Wobbegong shark near Sydney, Australia
Eco Divers file photo

9.

Leopard sharks
From Monterey Bay Aquarium Tumblr

10.

Whitetip reef sharks at rest
Photo by Andy Lerner
From Best Shark Photographs from the Last Ten Years of Photo Contests

11.

Thresher shark off Jervis Bay
Photo by Scott Sheehan
From Prime predator’s acrobatic stunts off Jervis Bay (more photos)

12.

Small-spotted catshark fetus in its egg case
Photo by Sander van der Wel

13.

Horn shark pup hatching from its egg case on a reef off Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California, USA
Photo by Marty Snyderman

14. Whitespotted bamboo sharks

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Whitespotted bamboo sharks hatch from their egg cases at Houston Zoo, Houston, Texas, USA; video is one minute, fifteen seconds

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Blacktip sharks are born live at Albuquerque Aquarium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; video is one minute, twenty-one seconds

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