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What may look like two eyes above a smiling mouth are actually the skate’s nostrils. #visitorpicture by @krysmetcalf #regram #skate #oceananimal #smileyface #boston #massachusetts #localspecies
The Leopard shark is a species of houndshark, in the family Triakidae. Known for its distinctive dark spots and saddle type markings, the Leopard shark is known to live up to 30 years, taking more than a decade to reach maturity. Leopard sharks prefer nearshore, shallow waters less than 20 feet deep and tend to hang out near the bottom. They use a variety of habitats, including sandy and muddy bottoms, kelp forests, and rocky reefs. These guys are easy going and have no problem being around divers.
The Basking shark is the second largest shark in the world! This shark lives in cool, temperate waters where there’s a lot of plankton. It swims through the water with its big ol’ mouth wide open; water goes in through the mouth and back out through the gills, but the plankton are strained out by cone-like filters on the gills called “Gill Rakers.” Even though the Basking shark has a massive mouth, it only has a throat about as wide as a grapefruit. So these sharks cause no harm to humans, in fact, they only have teeny tiny teeth! They don’t really care for anything larger than plankton.
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