Shark & Rocky Reef - Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA

Sevengill sharks, leopard sharks, spiny dogfish, and Pacific angel sharks cruise the 90-foot hourglass tank of the Monterey Bay Habitats exhibit, sharing the space with big skates, bat rays, sturgeon, rockfish, giant sea bass, and flatfish settled on the sandy floor. The tank is designed around the sharks, its elongated shape giving the larger animals room to glide and turn continuously.

Every species in this exhibit lives in the cold waters of Monterey Bay just beyond the aquarium walls, making it less a conventional display and more a window into what's already out there. Rockfish cluster around the reef structure, starfish dot the rocks, and the sandy patches at the base of the tank change constantly as bottom-dwellers shift position.

The Pacific angel shark is the one to look for. Flat, camouflaged, and almost impossible to spot when settled on the seafloor, it's the kind of fish that visitors walk past without realising it's there.

Did You Know? The sevengill shark visible in this tank is one of the most ancient shark lineages still alive, with a body plan that has remained largely unchanged for around 200 million years. Unlike most modern sharks, which have five gill slits, sevengills have seven, a characteristic shared with sharks from the Jurassic period.

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