What are the benefits of sharks?
As apex predators, sharks play an important role in the ecosystem by maintaining the species below them in the food chain and serving as an indicator for ocean health. They help remove the weak and the sick as well as keeping the balance with competitors helping to ensure species diversity.
Why are sharks good for the ocean?
Sharks as apex predators can regulate species abundance, distribution and diversity, which in turn can impact the health of marine habitats. Additionally, they provide essential food sources for scavengers and remove the sick and weak from populations of prey species.
What is unique about sharks?
Sharks can hear a fish swimming over one mile away, and can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of water. The upper and lower jaws of the shark are able to move, unlike humans and most other animals. By counting the rings on the shark’s vertebrae, one is able to gauge the age of the animal.
Can dinosaurs still exist?
Today, paleontologists have made a pretty much open-and-shut case that dinosaurs never really went extinct at all; they merely evolved into birds, which are sometimes referred to as “living dinosaurs.” Granted, Phorusrhacos went extinct millions of years ago; there are no dinosaur-sized birds alive today.
Would a dinosaur eat a human?
rex surely would have been able to eat people. There are fossil bite marks, matching the teeth of T. rex, on the bones of Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs such as Edmontosaurus, which were both over 50 times heavier than an average person. But that doesn’t mean we would be hunted to extinction.
Can a velociraptor kill a human?
Irl a human could easily kill a lone velociraptor, in fact a nice kick would do it. However, the raptor could still do serious damage, latching onto you and cleaving into flesh with its killer claw. It’d take a lot of mauling to kill a human so it’d probably get crushed before it could do that but it’s possible.
Can at Rex eat a human?
A t-rex is fast enough to catch a human, but other animals it will struggle with. It evolved during a time when some of its primary prey like the triceratops and other larger prey had a strategy of being big, strong, and powerful.
Do raptors eat humans?
Various large raptors like golden eagles are reported attacking human beings, but its unclear if they intend to eat them or if they have ever been successful in killing one. Some fossil evidence indicates large birds of prey occasionally preyed on prehistoric hominids.