Sharks Sharks Sharks & More Sharks
There are 12 living Orders of sharks and rays swimming in our oceans today, and more than 440 known species. Here are some of the wackier ones! ------------------ NEW! Subreddit: http://www.redd...
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So we spent the last few days talking about sharks here on The Brain Scoop, but we haven’t really answered the question: what is a shark? Well, duh, Emily - they’re major fearsome apex predators with razor-sharp teeth and sometimes their craniums more closely resemble hardware equipment than it does feasible skulls, and on occasion, they swim around with their mouths gaping open as though they’re stuck in a perpetual state of dumbfoundedness. Right? What makes a shark a shark? We’re going to keep it relatively simple in our explanation so, for our fundamental learning purposes, there are 3 types of fish that are still swimming in our oceans today. There are jawless fish like the hagfish and the lampreys; bony fish are those with skeletons of bon...
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So we spent the last few days talking about sharks here on The Brain Scoop, but we haven’t really answered the question: what is a shark? Well, duh, Emily - they’re major fearsome apex predators with razor-sharp teeth and sometimes their craniums more closely resemble hardware equipment than it does feasible skulls, and on occasion, they swim around with their mouths gaping open as though they’re stuck in a perpetual state of dumbfoundedness. Right? What makes a shark a shark? We’re going to keep it relatively simple in our explanation so, for our fundamental learning purposes, there are 3 types of fish that are still swimming in our oceans today. There are jawless fish like the hagfish and the lampreys; bony fish are those with skeletons of bon...
