#and sharks are cool

[quizamodo]

What Kind of Shark Are You?

What Kind of Shark Are You?

[sharksplease]

Shark fact:

Sharks will wear Remoras as hats. This is because they are best friends.

[bizzzcochitoart]

Sharks!!! 🦈🌊

[porodermalinger]

Making this post for no reason other than to announce to the world how much I fucking LOVE hagfish

They bring me so much joy. They occupy one of the coolest ecological niches. They are one of the few remaining members of an ancient lineage of jawless fish. They are the only animals (THAT WE KNOW OF) to have a skull but no vertebral column.

Conclusion: hagfish (and their relatives the lamprey) are FUCKING COOL and I think we should spend more time thinking about them.

[rayne-is-a-basking-shark]

don't be afraid of sharks, be afraid FOR sharks :( 🦈

[alltimecharlo]

crying at everyone just watching this occur lol

^live willmack reaction cam

[aquariumgraveleater1205]

Found my new favorite thing to see whale sharks do

:0

[naamahdarling]

Graffiti raises property values actually. In my eyes anyway.

[ghosti1ee]

Hatsune Jeffku

Luna dressed him up lol

[ricky-mortis]

I heard that Corey Dorris sang Show Stopping Number at Innit- so I present: Corey!Hidgens

[starboy-scribbles]

I got bored on the bus ride home so I drew some sharks :p I actually love them so much they’re such cuties!!

[sharksplease]

Shark fact:

Sharks gossip

[amnhnyc]

What makes the dark shyshark (Haploblepharus pictus) so shy? When threatened, this critter might curl up into a ring and cover its eyes with its tail. Scientists think this defensive posture makes it harder for predators to gulp the dark shyshark down for an easy meal. Found in parts of the southeast Atlantic Ocean, this shark can grow to about 22 in (55.8 cm) long. Its diet includes crustaceans, mollusks, and fish.

Photo: Raoulco, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[protectoursharks]

Any fun facts about basking sharks? (Really big sea puppies)

Cetorhinus maximus or Basking Shark

These are the second largest shark and fish in the world (after the whale shark), they can grow to be 12 m (40 ft) long!

Also like whale sharks, they're ram filter feeders. This means that to catch prey, they simply open their mouths, swim forward, and catch whatever happens to get in their way! This is why they (and other ram filter feeders) tend to have such large mouths. The basking sharks mouth can be up to 1 m (3ft wide).

While sharks are mostly thought to be solitary creatures, a lot of species do school and the basking shark is one of them! They're usually divided by sex (except during periods of mating), and schools of over 100 females have been spotted!

And probably the coolest fact about them- THEY CAN JUMP OUT OF THE WATER. Despite weighing around 5,000 kg (approx. 11,000 lbs) they can breach 1.2 m (4 ft) into the air! It's believed they do this as a method to remove parasites.

[respect-the-locals]

[jesncin]

the world is at an imbalance. I fear redesigning and making fanfiction of King Shark as an anti-colonial queer demigod and protector of Indigenous nonconformity is what will bring the world back into tune.

maybe in my Superboy retelling I could indulge this itch.