Shark Cartilage is taken from the hammerhead, and spiny dogfish sharks, and cow (bovine) and other animals then made into a powder. The protein of collagen is found in the connective tissues of skin, bone and cartilage. Shark cartilage first…
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Sometimes you may want to find out the gender of a baby shark, and surprisingly enough many people DO want to know. Although they may look exactly like their parents when they are born, which is a smaller version of…
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Fear would strike into the heart of anyone who had the misfortune of coming face-to-face with a shark. However, the goblin shark (scientific name: Mistukurina owstoni) produces two distinctly different reactions. One reaction is a combination of horror and revulsion….
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CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS White sharks are known to be cannabilistic and will raise their heads above the surface to, it is believed, analyze the location of prey, by smell. But it depends on the type of prey. White sharks have a…
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Ah the Amphineura. What are they and does anybody care? I do, because I like primitive forms and the 8 plated chitons are the second most primitive members of a pretty important invertebrate phylum, the Mollusca. Only the mysterious solenogasters,…
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Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have gotten a bad reputation for attacking humans. Contrary to myth and misinformation, great white sharks do not desire human beings as prey. To unravel the mystery behind how great white sharks capture their prey,…
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The gastropods are animals like snails and slugs, limpets and whelks, abalone and cone shells. They form the largest class in the Phylum Mollusca. Gastropod means stomach-foot and all the members of this class are possessed of this strange characteristic:…
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Amphipods are an interesting and important group of crustaceans, with about 8000 species known world-wide. They are predominantly marine but there are some fresh water species and even a few terrestrial forms, known as beach fleas. These are the only…
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The shark, notorious ruler of the sea, began its reign nearly 400 million years ago when its evolutionary lineage separated from that of its ancestor, the prehistoric bony fish. Today, more than 300 species of sharks still inhabit the oceans,…
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If brains are the crown of creation then the crown of the Mollusc Phylum goes to the Cephalopods. They can’t match human intelligence, but for invertebrates, an octopus is about as clever as it gets. There are about 700 known…
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