The hammerhead shark is all over the oceans of our world, this estrange but beautiful sea creatures have been around us since many years ago, for example in Ecuador, prehispanic cultures use to fish these sharks for food.

They have a very particular shape in their head, why this? Well, this improves its ability to find prey such as fish, squid, octopus and they even eat smaller sharks! Their big eyes give a greater visual range of 360 degrees and can see all around them for danger.

They swim in tropical and subtropical waters all around the world, generally they are close to the surface, but they are also excellent in swimming in the deep. In the Enchanted Galapagos Islands is one of the few places in the world where hammerhead sharks can still be seen closely in schools of hundreds of specimens, make sure to visit this place but if you do practice responsible tourism so we can protect these species of sharks.

The reproduction of these sharks happens only once a year and for this, the male bites the female so that she accepts him and like this the male can transfer the sperm. They don’t have a long-estimated time of life; this is why young specimens will swim together in groups up until 15 sharks.

We, the human species are the greatest threat to sharks and marine life, with illegal fishing, tourism, shark fin demand and contamination, because of this these creature’s lives are threatened, they have a short-estimated time of living and unfortunately are endangered.

If you ever want a little piece of these sharks you can take them as a little souvenir, how? Well visit Pachamama an online store where you will be able to find marble stone sea figures and we can get it to wherever you are.