Thursday, May 30, 2013

Cartilaginous fishes

Cartilage is stiffer and less flexible than muscle, and is not as hard or rigid as bones. It does not heal.

Sci name: 

Chondrichthyes


Common name: cartilaginous fishes.

Sharks are one example of cartilaginous fishes. 

They do not have ribs; thus, if they went outside water their own body weight would crush them.

Thick skin.

Teeth evolved from sharp bony plates around their head, differently from other teeth:
No parental care after birth.

One example is the basking shark:

Another is the megalodon:

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