Sharks & Rays Educational Posters & Charts
for classrooms and homeschoolers.

Rows of shark carcasses at a Tokyo fishmarket, Photographic Print

Sharks are in demand due to their durable leather skin, their teeth and their liver oil, which is used in the medical and cosmetic industries.

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Diver holds on to giant manta ray, Mexico Art Print

Rays, skates and sharks are cartilaginous marine fish, meaning they have a skeleton made of a tough, elastic cartilage rather than bone.

Rays and skates have flattened bodies, enlarged pectoral fins that are fused to the head, and gill slits that are placed on their ventral surfaces.

Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley

Watson and the Shark (1778), an oil-on-canvas painting by John Singleton Copley, depicts the rescue of 14 year-old Brook Watson from a 1749 shark attack in Havana, Cuba.

Watson, who lost his right leg below the knee, went on supervise the expulsion of the Acadians from the Baie Verte area (Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), spy on American revolutionaries, serve on the original board of Lloyds of London, and as the Lord Mayor of London.

The Gulf Stream, 1899 Art Print

The Gulf Stream, an oil painting by Winslow Homer shows a man in a small rudderless fishing boat struggling against the waves of the sea, a distant waterspout, and the threat of the surrounding sharks.

Jaws Poster

Jaws (1975) is a Steven Spielberg thriller movie based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. Dudum, dudum, dudum...

Finding Nemo Poster

Finding Nemo (2003) is a computer-animated film that tells the story of the overly protective father letting his son find his own way in the vast ocean.

Shark Tale Movie Poster

Shark Tale (2004): an underachieving fish, “Oscar”, claims to have killed a shark.