Sharks

I visited Nanna and Grandpa all day the day before today because Mummy was painting pottery a long way away and Daddy was at work. I went there in my pyjamas to have my breakfast. We watched a movie about sharks called Great White Sharks and I learnt lots and told Mummy and Daddy all about it and they thought I should tell you too because they are really exciting creatures and were on earth before the dinosaurs so that is even before Grandpa's Grandpa.
They live in the sea and a big boy went surfboarding and the shark bit his arm and his leg but it only left a mark. The surfboard was bitten in two pieces and the shark swam away with a mouthful of surfboard. The boy collected both pieces of board and swam back to shore. Quite a bit of blood came out.
Another man in a boat went out with oars and he thought the shark was leaning its head on his boat and it was tipping. The shark was taking a closer look at the boat so the man paddled really fast to shore and jumped out of the boat. (You can read about this man and his adventure with the shark yourselves)
A girl was swimming with two children and the daddy. The shark bit her leg and she only had a scar and she screamed and her hair was wet because she had been swimming.
I saw a picture of them jumping out of the sea with fish in their teeth.
Biting sharks are the only fish that take a look at the sand. (typers note: I looked this up and found the following on Wiki: "The great white shark is one of only a few sharks to regularly lift its head above the sea surface to gaze at other objects such as prey; this is known as spy-hopping" Apparently scientists are not sure if this is because the shark is curious or to improve its sense of smell!)

One even had bits of whale in its tummy. (typers note: again, I checked, and during an necropsy a sharks stomach was found to be full of whale blubber. Bethany was fascinated by the ability of a shark to eat a whale although the images did put her off her food for a while even though it included her favourite - baked beans)
Sharks normally have lots of scars from battles with other sharks.
They have the biggest brains. They have three bits and are not round like our brains but long like a y. (typers note, sorry to keep interrupting Bethany's comments but I needed to check. She is right about the shape - see the pictures we found. The size is another one of those questions dividing scientists. One part of the brain is only the size of a walnut making the shark very small brained - scary in such a large and powerful creature. However the shark's brain is divided into sections and when all put together it is believed to even include the eyes. Great Whites, and other sharks, do have disproportionally sized livers which might have been the organ Bethany meant)
Their teeth are like saws and are sharp with zigzag bits. They have some near to the front and they have another set of jaws behind the first and you can see the second teeth in the gaps between teeth. (Final typers note, I hope: they have tooth generating membranes that are constantly growing rows of replacement teeth that gradually increase in size as the shark grows older. Like a conveyor belt of teeth.)
The biting sharks are called Great White.
They live near Auntie Kate in South Africa and Australia and American but not Britain. The basking shark lives near Britain and it is smaller than Mummy and they only eat little things. I'm little but they eat things littler than me and I want to see one. Daddy has seen one on a boat in Cornwall when he was a little boy.