According to Live Science, “Cookiecutter sharks leave a very distinctive scar when they bite; their specialized jaw allows them to “scoop out a hemispherical plug of flesh from their prey,” according to the study. The sharks’ name comes from the uniformity of the bite, which looks “like you took a cookie cutter to some dough,” Papastamatiou said. “‘Ice-cream-scoop shark’ would be technically more accurate, but it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.” The video starts by showing the depths of the Bermuda Triangle and the deep trenches contained there. The narrator comments, “We have no idea what’s going on down in the deep trenches here. Anything could be happening in the deep sea. It’s one of the final frontiers for human exploration, even more interesting, in my opinion than exploring space.”

They are going to enter the Bermuda Triangle, which they share “is inhabited by all sorts of strange sharks, one of them is the cookiecutter shark, which lives in the Tongue of the Ocean.” Cookiecutter Shark Sighting These sharks are covered with light organs, likely used for either communication or camouflage. Cookiecutter sharks feed closer to the surface at night and in deeper water during the day, so they are almost always in the dark. The cookiecutter shark is not fished commercially, and is only rarely captured accidentally in fisheries targeting other species. Based on a recent analysis, scientists believe the cookiecutter shark to be a species of least concern.Fold the square shape in half to get the long rectangle (the side with the teeth will stay inside).

Though this species lives in the open ocean, there has been one confirmed case where an individual bit a person. The circumstances that led to that incident, however, are extreme. The person was a distance athlete, swimming a very long distance between islands in Hawaii, at night, surrounded by boats with lights that attracted prey. That swimmer was bitten on the calf, leaving a gruesome scar but otherwise not causing permanent damage. The cookiecutter shark is a small shark that reaches only between 14-22 inches long. We can see its mouth open if we pause the video at 2:31. And this brings us to the way it’s called the cookie-cutter shark. When it bites its victims, it is known to leave a cookie-cutter-type bite in its prey. The cookiecutter shark is one of the most interesting sharks in the ocean, and it never grows bigger than 18-20 inches (~50 cm). It gets its common name from its feeding strategy of biting off small chunks of much larger animals. This species is small and lives much of its life in the deep water column (mesopelagic). It is therefore difficult to study, so there is little known about exactly where it lives, but it has been collected or observed in many places around the world, most significantly in tropical to temperate latitudes.

4. Sharks live in most ocean habitats

Next, we see their divers going down to see what type of animals they will find. One of these divers is Joe Romeiro, who is an underwater cinematographer (who is a person who is in charge of photography and videography.) Underwater, we see a variety of sharks that make themselves at home in the Bermuda Triangle. We see sharks such as the megamouth and the sharpnose sevengill. You can print it on regular print paper or glossy paper (photography paper works pretty well with paper toys such as this one).