Gallery at a Glance

  • Join us for Narrated Shark Training Sessions at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You’ll see sharks that are trained to swim to targets for their food. This calm feeding session helps us give each animal the appropriate nutrition.
  • Explore Mote’s shark research past and present. Mote has the only Center for Shark Research designated by the U.S. Congress!
  • Get a close-up look at real sharks of multiple species from large sanbar sharks to small bonnethead sharks.
  • Gently touch marine animals including rays in our ray touch pool and marine invertebrates in our Contact Cove touch pool.
  • Take your photo by our Megalodon shark jaw, a replica showing the size of this huge extinct species.
  • Sift for fossils at our Fossil Creek experience!