Sharks

Meet a few of the ocean’s top predators in this deep-ocean exhibit. Reef sharks, nurse sharks, and sand tiger sharks swim with stingrays and sea turtles in a floor-to-ceiling tank that lets you get close enough to count teeth.

What to See and Do

Daily Feeding
Find out what these discriminating diners enjoy most at mealtime.

Touch a shark’s skin and bend its bones.
You won’t have to reach into the tank! A display let’s you feel how a shark’s bones are made of cartilage, just like our ears.

Learn to tell a shark from an airplane.
Just like planes, sharks have stiff fins to “fly” through water. Also discover their ties to satellite dishes and bloodhounds.

Meet your extended family.
Just like people, sharks bear young only every few years, mature in their teens, and have eggs fertilized internally.

Protecting Sharks

Wildlife Conservation Society scientists conduct research on sharks in the wild. In local waters, Dr. Hans Walters studies the ranging patterns of the sand tiger shark off the coasts of New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina. The information he gathers will help federal and state agencies improve conservation strategies for coastal sharks in the western Atlantic. In the waters off South Africa and New Zealand, Dr. Ramón Bonfil tracks the movements of great white sharks. He helped lead the effort to increase international protection for great whites through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.