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sand shark
Carcharias taurus
Odontaspis taurus

The sand shark is usually a non-aggressive, docile species that likes to be left alone.

Only a few sand sharks turn up this far west in Long Island Sound.

With him lives a female sand shark named Hermosa.

He thought of removing his shoes too, but remembered the sand shark's teeth.

Then he did a bit of leisurely swimming, round and round like the sand sharks.

In the murky dark outside: a questing sand shark?

But I'm surprised the old sand shark has a robe to call his own if he's still using the pair he had that night.

"I watched it for about 10 seconds, and I don't think it was a sand shark."

It was a little speckled sand shark about sixteen inches long.

She jumps back as a sand shark lunges at a piece of fish in the hand of a diver.