The Spirit of the Ocean – the whale shark, a placid giant, a filter-feeding shark that lives a relaxed life in the tropics. Friend to divers, remora and other mutualistic fish and the largest known fish species in the world today. The largest known animal at all outside of the whales. This fish, this shark, is truly spectacular from their feeding methods, to their size, to their behaviour. Find out why we put this shark as our number 1!
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Top Ten Sharks #9 – The Blue Shark, Prionace glauca
Why am I following up the behemoth with a mouth that could crush the core of the Earth, the megalodon, with a 3m (around 10 feet) cuddly toy? Well because I think sharks are cute. I think the blue shark is one of the cutest animals on the planet. I think it’s absolutely gorgeous andContinue reading “Top Ten Sharks #9 – The Blue Shark, Prionace glauca”
Top Ten Sharks: Introduction
An introduction to the basics of sharks, explaining what the chondrichthyes are (fish made of cartilage) what the elsamobranchs are (basically sharks and rays) and a little bit of the natural history, the evolutionary past, and the sensory craziness that makes sharks so a misunderstood and awesome group of animals to study.
Forget Jaws, We Lack Discipline will teach you the reality of these maligned, misunderstood beauties.
We Lack Discipline 