THERE ARE 15 SPECIES OF SHARKS FOUND ON THE OREGON COAST: HERE’S WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Coast is home to 15 different species of sharks, which range in size from 32-foot giants to 2-foot brown cat sharks, Oregon State University’s Hatfield Visitor Center says.

“Fifteen species may not seem like many, but they represent enough variety to fascinate shark lovers and phobics alike,” OSU’s Hatfield Visitor Center states. “In our waters, we have a shark that’s indigo blue and a shark with electric-green eyes. We have one of the four most dangerous sharks in the world and a shark that never eats people but which, when eaten by humans, can intoxicate them.”

The types of sharks found on the Oregon Coast include the basking shark, the great white, the common thresher, the sixgill, the Pacific sleeper, the blue shark, the shortfin mako, the salmon shark, the sevengill, the soupfin, the leopard shark, the Pacific angel, the spiny dogfish, the brown smoothhound and the brown cat shark. Check out each species in the slideshow included above.

Sharks have existed for more than 400-million years and have survived five mass extinctions, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife states. There are more than 500 species of sharks worldwide.

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