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Bowmouth Guitarfish
The bowmouth guitarfish is actually a ray, though due to its shark-like body is sometimes called a shark ray. It's just about the coolest-looking shark there is (science). It's found all over the tropical sections of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and survives well in captivity--but is relatively rare, due to accidental catch, fishing (its fins are eaten in some Asian countries), and habitat destruction.
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Happy Shark Week! In honor of the One True American Holiday (all other holidays are less true, due to lower shark content), I spent about an hour reading about sharks on Wikipedia. Important findings from a solid morning's research: sharks often have weird names. For example: the birdbeak dogfish. That's a real animal! Ditto the flaccid catshark and, perhaps weirdest of all, the porbeagle, which doesn't sound like a fish at all. Click through for more.
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I would of thought a lot more political lawyers would of been listed in this article. But, in looking at the pictures, I did see many familiar faces. ;)
Shucks. I was expecting to see names like "Snavely",
"Fredericka", "Arthurine" and such. I'm disappointed. But at least they spared us "john edwards" - that would have been a bit much.
Chuck