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Sea Creatures That You Should Probably Be Aware Of
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--- Quote from: LTK on 29 Dec 2011, 08:23 ---Sharks don't have wombs.
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Having dissected a shark in high school I can at least prove you wrong on that one. Thankfully my shark was one of the few that didn't have babies. (The baby sharks made me sad.)
That cyclops thing is weeeeeird!
LTK:
--- Quote from: Linds on 02 Feb 2012, 12:57 ---Having dissected a shark in high school I can at least prove you wrong on that one. Thankfully my shark was one of the few that didn't have babies. (The baby sharks made me sad.)
That cyclops thing is weeeeeird!
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Not quite! Wombs are organs exclusive to mammals, although I was wrong about sharks not producing live young. Some sharks are oviparous and lay eggs, some are ovoviviparous and hatch their eggs in the oviduct, and some are viviparous and maintain a placental link to the fetus. I dissected a shark as well; a spiny dogfish in my first university year. Mine didn't have babies, but it had swallowed a fish that only barely fit in its stomach. Someone else's shark did have babies, and a crapton of them to boot.
I still have the shark's dorsal spine on a necklace somewhere.
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Well, I meant more along the lines of they can have babies inside of them and can be pulled out of them, but yeah.
On average I think most people in my class had at least 6 babies in their sharks? There were a startling amount of them. It was pretty disgusting, actually.
Barmymoo:
Wait what, you guys dissect sharks? We once dissected a pig's heart but that was only once and also only two girls in the whole class were prepared to do it (and I was one of those two).
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