Re: Shark Denticle Question.
Sabata wrote:Hello, I'm a junior in high school and I'm currently writing a lab for a shark dissection. My question is this: Why are the shark Denticles angled, rather than being parallel with the sharks body?
I didn't know they were angled. Are all shark species this way, or just a few?
Maybe it deflects the water in some way which is beneficial to the shark?
If it's just one species, then it might be a specialization based on the behavior of that particular species, but if it's all sharks, then it must have some more general function.
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