Happy February, ScribbleFriends!

I’ve been reading about sharks and boy, are they cool. Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years. But even though they’ve been around longer than people, longer than trees – they were even around before the dinosaurs – scientists still don’t know too much about them. That could be due to the fact that they’re always swimming (if they stop, they’ll sink). Or because they’re big and have big teeth (no one wants to get too close). It doesn’t help that Sharks don’t have a skeleton, so the only bones or fossils scientists can find to study are their teeth.

What people do know about sharks is amazing. They hardly ever get sick and when they get cuts or injuries, the wounds heal super-fast. Sharks never stop growing. Baby great whites are about 4 feet long when they’re born, ready to swim and catch their own meals. The largest great white shark captured was 21 feet long and more than 8 feet wide, but a lot of people think they get bigger than that. The whale shark is the largest of all the sharks and can measure up to 50 feet long!

Do you like to eat? Do you like to swim? Would you like to be a shark?

Your pal,

ScribbleMonster