Seems like an easy question, but when you consider that we don’t even know where white shark give birth (which is far more important!), you begin to realise that there are no easy answers when sharks are concerned. Let me take you through the physiology and the math, and show you how difficult this easy looking question actually is.
In order to tell you how many teeth a white shark has over its lifetime, we’ll need to do some sort of calculation like this one I’ve just made up (it is a blog afterall):
Rate of tooth loss X average life span of the shark = how many teeth over a lifetime.
That's easy enough, but do you see the problem yet? If not, read on...
We definitely know that white sharks have about 24 exposed teeth on their top and lower jaws, respectively. That’s these:
But behind these 48ish teeth, there can be 5ish rows of developing teeth behind them, like this:
In order to tell you how many teeth a white shark has over its lifetime, we’ll need to do some sort of calculation like this one I’ve just made up (it is a blog afterall):
Rate of tooth loss X average life span of the shark = how many teeth over a lifetime.
That's easy enough, but do you see the problem yet? If not, read on...
We definitely know that white sharks have about 24 exposed teeth on their top and lower jaws, respectively. That’s these:
But behind these 48ish teeth, there can be 5ish rows of developing teeth behind them, like this:
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