GREAT WHITE SHARK RESEARCH
The Great White Shark has a distinctive white stomach and a grey-blue top half of their body. They can live up to 70 or more years, just like a human. The biggest of the Great Whites can grow up to 20 feet, or about 6 metres, but most are smaller. Female Great Whites are longer than the males, measuring up to about 15-16 feet long. They are mostly mistaken for the Mako shark, Porbeagle or the Bronze Whaler. It is illegal in New Zealand to trade in Great White products, and also illegal to take or harm these creatures, and the must be returned to the ocean immediately. Young Great Whites eat smaller prey, including fish, rays, or other sharks. Older Great Whites go for larger meals, like Sea Lions, Seals, otters, sea turtles and whales, such as Belugas. Great Whites swallow their food, as they do not chew. They are ranked #1 on the deadliest sharks to humans, and there is around 80 unprovoked attacks to humans per year.
I used this website here to get most of my information.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-animals/marine-fish/great-white-shark-identification-guide.pdf
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