Brute Sharks

Kitefin Sharks continue as one of the top members of the Late Îledescene’s ocean fauna. Well some of the large Ichthy-Ichthy’s grow larger than them and some Tera Squid like the Marsh Mouth and Manasqee returning to marine environments they still maintain a large number of megafaunal niches. 

Well, some features like the large eyes and bioluminescence hint at their ancestry as deep-water predators they have converged on the Lamniformes pelagic body plan. 

Brute Sharks are one such group of Kitefin Sharks. Descendants of the Speckle Shark they are the sister lineage to the Sharkopath both evolving from a Porbeagle-like ancestor and being much more active than other  Squaliformes. The main difference is that Brute Sharks grow larger and are solitary whereas Sharkopaths forum lose social groups. 

The Jaguar Shark is the largest of the Brute Sharks 25 feet long it is larger than any living Squaliforme only beaten by filter-feeding relatives. 

A migratory species Jaguar Sharks are found across most of the continental shelf frequenting the waters around the Western Peninsula and the waters around the southern tip of the supercontinent where many females give birth. 

A generalist apex predator that will eat anything available like other members of their order they are very slow-moving most of the time only when they see prey within reach will they accelerate at rapid speed killing prey with bites to the head in cases of hunting large prey sometimes completly breaching the water.

In between these brief bursts of predatory speed, Jaguar sharks are quite slow-moving in their travels taking them across the warmer waters of the world.    

Most of the bioluminescence has been lost with only small yellow dapples in the darker gray spots that shimmer when moving to help hide them against the water when hunting. 

The Sharpedo on the other hand wants to be seen. 

A more Pelagic Shark Sharpedo’s like the Jaguar Shark is mostly slow-moving conserving its energy in the open ocean where it can be thousands of miles from land at any time only rocketing forward in torpedo-like fashion at the sight of prey including anything from pelagic fish, cephalopods, seabird blush, marine tera-squid or carcasses of other sharks. 

Its standout feature is the yellow along its white underside these give off a light glow of striking yellow in the water. 

In contrast with the white underside and brown top side serve to draw the preys line of attention giving the Sharpedo a few extra seconds as the prey sees the striking patterns before it sees the shark's jaws.