#sawfish

1990

photos via: The Ocean Foundation & Simon Fraser University

Each of them is so wonderfully interesting in their own right, from the Greenland Shark whose incredibly slow metabolism sees them live for centuries to the Sawfish and Sawshark and extinct Sawskate who are not related to each other at all but each independently evolved basically the exact same body plan and weird saw (I've illustrated the Sawfish which is a ray not a shark but it's cuter) to the Goblin Shark who can dislocate its jaw and shoot it forward like a hideous little crane game crane, to the Great White who almost ritually exsanguinates its prey before eating it and has different hunting techniques to do this for each of its regular prey animals!

Ever wanted know the difference between sawfish and saw sharks? Well I made a zine about it!!

Pristis pristis

3.45" Fossil Sawfish (Onchopristis) Rostral Barb - Morocco

this is a scate not a shark but they are all chondrichthyes so forgive me