Shark World at the Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Project Leader: Dr Leonard Compagno
SharkWorld takes the viewer on an insightful evolutionary journey 400 million years back in time to the earliest predecessors of the Sharks. Superb works of art provide colourful impressions of how these long-gone creatures may have looked.
The exhibition includes comprehensive displays on Chondrichthyans - Sharks, Skates, Rays and Chimeras - from tiny Pigmy Sharks to the massive Whale Shark, and from the seemingly prehistoric Sawshark to the electrifying Torpedo Ray.
Shark World is illustrated by graphics, photographs, and accurate casts of living and fossil sharks and rays, including a 4.9 m white shark, a 6 m wide manta ray with her 1 m wide pup, a 4.3 m southern sleeper shark, a 4.3 m immature whale shark, a 3.6 m bigeye thresher. There is also a reconstructed set of megladon jaws which standing 2m in height.
Further highlights include life-size marine models, an anatomy display of the innards of sharks and 'Shark electric' in which the extra-sensory abilities of sharks and their sensitivity to magnetic fields are explored.
The exhibition includes comprehensive displays on Chondrichthyans - Sharks, Skates, Rays and Chimeras - from tiny Pigmy Sharks to the massive Whale Shark, and from the seemingly prehistoric Sawshark to the electrifying Torpedo Ray.
Shark World is illustrated by graphics, photographs, and accurate casts of living and fossil sharks and rays, including a 4.9 m white shark, a 6 m wide manta ray with her 1 m wide pup, a 4.3 m southern sleeper shark, a 4.3 m immature whale shark, a 3.6 m bigeye thresher. There is also a reconstructed set of megladon jaws which standing 2m in height.
Further highlights include life-size marine models, an anatomy display of the innards of sharks and 'Shark electric' in which the extra-sensory abilities of sharks and their sensitivity to magnetic fields are explored.