Great hammerhead
Sphyrna mokarran
Size, compared with you
You: 1.7 m. Great hammerhead: 6.1 m.
Giant. Grows up to about 6.1 m.
The biggest of the hammerheads, with a tall fin and a very wide head. It hunts along warm coasts and reefs, and loves to eat stingrays.
The weird bit
Great hammerheads often swim tipped over on their sides, which may cut drag by about 10 percent.
Quick facts
- Where it lives
- Coral reef, Coast and shallows1 to 300 m down
- What it eats
- Stingrays, bony fish, squid, crustaceans and smaller sharks
- How worried are we?
- In serious danger (Critically Endangered)Assessed in 2018 by the IUCN Red List.