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Your guide to Earth’s top 30 deadliest animals

28. Sharks

While there have been numerous movies depicting deadly shark attacks (think Jaws, Sharknado, and The Meg), shark attacks are pretty rare and deaths from them are even rarer. About six to ten people per year die from shark attacks, while around 150 are attacked each year. Less than a hundred of those are unprovoked, though.

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Every hour, people kill 11,417 sharks. In a year, that adds up to 100 million dead sharks. Many of them are being killed for their fins, which are used to make shark fin soup. A lot are killed as by-catch, meaning that people were fishing for something else but accidentally killed a shark instead. Humans do a lot more damage to sharks than they do to us.