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Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark by John D, Bharath J, Jason L, and Diego R. Ms Harad's 6th grade class, Thomas Starr King Middle School, 2014. Painted and embroidered fabric appliqué with rubber stamps.
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark by John D, Bharath J, Jason L, and Diego R.  Ms Harada’s 6th grade class, Thomas Starr King Middle School, 2014. Painted and embroidered fabric appliqué with rubber stamps.

The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna lewini) is classified as endangered by the IUCN Red list. Populations of Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks have dropped as much as 95% in the last 30 years, primarily because Scalloped Hammerheads are the shark most commonly caught for shark fin soup.  Increasingly, there is a call to ban ‘shark finning’; a practice where the fins of live sharks are cut off and the sharks are thrown back into the ocean to die.

To learn more about Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks go to:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/hammerhead-shark/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scalloped-hammerheads-become-first-shark-species-on-the-u-s-endangered-species-list/