Conservation: The sand tiger shark is a poster child for why it's important to protect sharks.
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk traded two juvenile sand tiger sharks for Veronica, Mystic Aquarium's hulking 9-foot-long, 210-pound sand tiger.
Gilmore, R.G. et al. (1983) Reproduction and embryonic development of the sand tiger shark.
The sand tiger shark is a large coastal creature that dwells in subtropical and temperate regions.
Embryonic sand tiger sharks eat one another while they're still in the womb.
The newborn sand tiger sharks are so large they maybe better able to see off predators.
Embryos of the sand tiger swim around in each of two uteri, attacking and consuming siblings until only two survive.
The sand tiger sharks are highly migratory, traveling as far south as the Carolinas and Florida during the cooler months.
No 'great' whites or oceanic whitetips among them, but tiger, yes, bull, great hammerhead, sand tiger, lemon, Caribbean reef, blacktip, grey, and perhaps the laziest, the nurse shark.
And as for fratricide, the only way a sand tiger shark can be born is by eating its siblings and unfertilized eggs in its mother's womb.
Mr. Walters, 50, received a master's in marine biology in 2009 from Hofstra University, where he did his thesis on the migration habits of sand tiger sharks.
