Never judge a book by its cover nor a shark by its name, because what the cookiecutter shark is capable of is absolutely ...

“All I had on my mind for the whole night were cookiecutter sharks in the channel coming up from the deep depths and taking a chunk out of us,” said Chris Chuck in a 2024 interview with Hawaii ...

Not all sharks kill the animals they feed on. The cookiecutter shark, a small species about 43 to 56 centimetres long, is so named because it feeds by biting mouthfuls of flesh out of larger animals.

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