Angel

Hi there! I'm angel! im blogging random stuff

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Hey there!

I'm Angel, and well.. my partner will be gone.. for over 10 weeks. So I'm posting random facts till he's back.. depending how it goes.. I might continue the facts. gimme suggestions? I'm going to post 17 facts today hopefully to make up for the past 17 days..

my current facts are coming from my past rants to people and my notes app

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shark facts. day ten. thresher sharks.

Thresher sharks..

Thresher sharks have absurdly long tails that can be as long as the rest of their body, and they actually use them like weapons. When hunting schools of fish, a thresher shark will swim up quickly and whip its tail forward hard enough to stun or kill multiple fish at once before turning around to eat them.

okay so hear me out and lets Imagine being a tiny fish and suddenly getting hit by what is basically an underwater flyswatter moving at incredible speed. that would be terrifying.

What makes it even cooler is that threshers often hunt alone, so their tail is basically their secret hunting tool. “give this shark a built-in melee attack.”

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MY SILLLYYY!!!! Thank you shark fact guy for shark facting!!!

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HFHFJHFEUHF of course. once I'm nolonger sick I'll post more. lemme know sharks you wanna hear about

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its 1am. I need sleep. its day 18 but I gotta post the previous days so its not weird. hi goodnight my lloves

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shark facts. day twelve. BASKING SHARKSsssssssssssssss

my favorite sharks fdhbhvbfdjvhgrbfyrebtfyuvebtfre basking shark

The basking shark is the second largest fish in the entire world, growing over 30 feet long, but despite looking absolutely massive. it mostly eats tiny plankton. They swim through the ocean with their mouths wide open filtering microscopic food from the water like giant living vacuums.

What makes them especially strange is how dramatic they look while doing something completely harmless. Imagine seeing a bus-sized shark slowly approaching you with its mouth fully open, only to realize it’s just trying to eat tiny floating organisms smaller than your fingernail.

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shark facts. day eleven. leopard sharks.

leopard sharks..

Some sharks can glow, some can sense electricity, and some can live for centuries, but leopard sharks somehow chose peace instead. Leopard sharks are small patterned sharks often found in shallow coastal waters, and they’re known for being surprisingly social and calm around humans.

Researchers have discovered that leopard sharks often return to the exact same locations every year and can form large groups together. Sometimes hundreds gather in warm shallow water almost like little shark communities.

I think people forget that not every shark is a giant predator from a movie. Some of them are just spotted little guys hanging out near beaches trying to enjoy warm water with their friends. !!!!

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shark facts. day ten. thresher sharks.

Thresher sharks..

Thresher sharks have absurdly long tails that can be as long as the rest of their body, and they actually use them like weapons. When hunting schools of fish, a thresher shark will swim up quickly and whip its tail forward hard enough to stun or kill multiple fish at once before turning around to eat them.

okay so hear me out and lets Imagine being a tiny fish and suddenly getting hit by what is basically an underwater flyswatter moving at incredible speed. that would be terrifying.

What makes it even cooler is that threshers often hunt alone, so their tail is basically their secret hunting tool. “give this shark a built-in melee attack.”

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Shark facts. day nine. tiger sharks.

Tiger sharks..

Tiger sharks are sometimes called the “garbage cans of the ocean” because they’ll eat almost anything. Scientists have found some absolutely bizarre things inside their stomachs, including license plates, tires, pieces of armor, and even entire chicken coops. Their curiosity is part of the reason for this tiger sharks often investigate objects by biting them first.

But despite their chaotic reputation, tiger sharks are actually incredibly important for ocean ecosystems. As apex predators, they help keep prey populations balanced and healthy. They may seem intimidating, but oceans genuinely rely on sharks like them to stay stable.

The idea of a shark accidentally eating a tire because it looked vaguely interesting feels both terrifying and weirdly relatable.

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I PROCRASTINATED AND CAME BACK TO 29 NOTES????? I love you all

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okay taking a small break. my hands hurt

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shark facts. day eight. goblin shark

goblin sharks..

Goblin sharks look like something the ocean accidentally created at 3 a.m. and just decided to keep. They live deep in the ocean where sunlight barely reaches, and because humans almost never see them alive, they’ve gained a reputation for being one of the weirdest sharks on Earth.

The first thing people notice is their face. Goblin sharks have this long flattened snout that sticks out in front of them, pale pinkish skin, and tiny eyes that make them look almost unfinished. But the truly terrifying part is their jaw.

Unlike most sharks, a goblin shark’s jaw can shoot forward incredibly fast to catch prey. When they sense food nearby, their jaws extend outward from their face almost like something from a horror movie. Scientists think this helps them catch fish and squid in the deep sea where food is scarce and every opportunity matters.

And because they live so deep underwater, their bodies are softer and less muscular than fast sharks like great whites. They don’t really chase prey down at high speed. Instead, they drift slowly through the darkness waiting for the right moment to snap forward and grab something before it can escape.

Honestly, I think the creepiest part is imagining one silently floating in completely dark water. No sunlight, no sound, just this ancient pink shark with extendable jaws moving through the deep ocean where humans have barely explored.

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shark facts. day seven. cookiecutter sharks.

The cookiecutter shark...

the cookiecutter shark is tiny, weird, and honestly one of the most unsettling sharks in the ocean once you learn what it does. It’s only about the size of a ruler, but it has one of the strangest feeding methods imaginable. Instead of chasing down prey like a great white, the cookiecutter shark sneaks up on much larger animals and literally takes a perfectly round bite out of them.

Its teeth are shaped in a way that lets it latch onto animals like whales, dolphins, tuna, and even other sharks. Then it twists its body and removes a circular chunk of flesh, leaving behind a wound that looks like someone used a cookie cutter. That’s where the name comes from.

And somehow it gets weirder. Cookiecutter sharks glow in the dark. Their undersides produce light that helps camouflage them from predators below, but scientists think they may also use the glowing to attract curious prey closer before attacking. Imagine being a fish in the deep ocean and seeing a tiny glowing shape in the darkness, only for it to suddenly take a bite out of you like a living hole punch.

They live deep in the ocean during the day and move closer to the surface at night, which means most people will thankfully never see one in person. But evidence of them is everywhere. Scientists have found cookiecutter shark bite marks on whales, large fish, submarines, and even underwater cables.

i think the funniest part is that nature made one of the ocean’s smallest sharks into an absolute menace. They really looked at the giant terrifying sharks and kinda just said “what if we made one small and deeply annoying instead.”

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shark facts. day six.

sharks.. got no bones.

Sharks don’t actually have bones, which feels wrong when you first learn it because they seem like such solid, powerful animals. Instead of a skeleton made of bone like humans, sharks are made almost entirely of cartilage the same flexible material that’s in our noses and ears.

Because cartilage is lighter and bendier than bone, it helps sharks move through the water incredibly smoothly. Their bodies can twist and turn quickly while swimming, which makes them fast, agile hunters. It’s one of the reasons sharks are so efficient in the ocean. Nature basically traded heavy bones for flexibility and speed.

What’s really interesting is that even though sharks don’t have bones, their cartilage can still become strengthened with calcium in certain places, especially around the jaw and spine. So their skeletons aren’t soft the way people sometimes imagine them. They’re still strong enough to support powerful bites and fast movement, just without the weight of a full bony skeleton.

This also means sharks leave behind fewer fossils compared to dinosaurs or other ancient animals. Most of the shark fossils scientists find are actually their teeth, because teeth are one of the hardest parts of their bodies. Sharks lose thousands of teeth throughout their lives too, so the ocean floor has basically been collecting shark teeth for millions of years.

Honestly I think it’s kind of amazing that one of the ocean’s most successful predators is technically built out of the same material as human ears. Evolution really looked at sharks and said “what if we made this thing both terrifying and weirdly efficient.”

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Shark facts. day five. hammerhead.

Hammerhead sharks can see almost fully around them

Hammerhead sharks genuinely look like someone designed a shark from memory and accidentally stretched its head sideways, but their weird shape is actually incredibly useful. Their wide hammer-shaped heads, called cephalofoils, help them see much more of the world around them. Because their eyes are placed so far apart, hammerheads have almost 360-degree vision and amazing depth perception. They can see above, below, and around themselves way better than many other sharks.

But the coolest part is that their heads basically work like giant sensory detectors. Hammerheads are covered in special organs that can pick up tiny electrical signals produced by living things. Every fish gives off faint electrical pulses through muscle movement and heartbeats, and hammerheads are especially good at detecting them. Their wide heads spread those sensors out farther, making it easier to locate prey hidden beneath the sand.

This makes them incredible hunters for stingrays, which love burying themselves on the ocean floor. A hammerhead can swim over the sand and still sense a stingray hidden underneath without even seeing it. Then it pins the ray down using its head before eating it. Nature really gave them built-in metal detectors and said “good luck everybody else.”

Some species (Smooth hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna zygaena).Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini)) of hammerheads also travel in massive schools, sometimes hundreds together at once, which feels strange because most people imagine sharks as solitary animals. Seeing a huge group of hammerheads moving together through blue water honestly looks more like something from a dream than a real animal behavior.

And despite looking intimidating, hammerheads are honestly just one of the coolest examples of evolution making something look bizarre for a really smart reason. !!

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shark facts. day four

🦈 Shark Fact #4

Greenland sharks are some of the longest living vertebrates on Earth.

and their lifespan honestly feels impossible to comprehend. Scientists believe some of them can live for over 400 years. That means there are potentially Greenland sharks swimming through the Arctic Ocean right now that were alive before the Salem witch trials, before the United States existed, and before Shakespeare even finished writing his plays.

These sharks live deep in the cold waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans, moving incredibly slowly through the darkness. They grow at an almost unbelievably slow rate too, only around a centimeter a year. Some female Greenland sharks don’t even reach adulthood until they’re about 150 years old. Imagine not even becoming a full adult until entire human civilizations have changed around you.

What I think is coolest is how ancient they probably feel without even realizing it. A Greenland shark could have silently swam through oceans while humans were sailing wooden ships across the Atlantic for the first time. It could have existed through wars, inventions, entire empires rising and falling, all while just peacefully drifting through freezing dark water.

They also have a really strange appearance. Their eyes often look cloudy because many Greenland sharks have parasites attached to them, giving them this ghostly ancient look that honestly matches the fact they’ve been around for centuries. !!

There’s something weirdly comforting about knowing there are sharks in the ocean older than most countries, just slowly existing in the deep cold water like living pieces of history.

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okay I'm sleepy.. I'll continue in the morning I think

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Shark facts. day three

Shark skin feels almost like sandpaper.

which probs sounds weird until you learn it’s basically covered in tiny little teeth. Instead of smooth scales like most fish, sharks have something called dermal denticles. They’re tiny tooth-like structures that point backward across the shark’s body !!

These denticles help water flow more smoothly around the shark while it swims, which means sharks can move faster, quieter, and more efficiently through the ocean. Nature basically designed them to be perfect swimmers. Even crazier, scientists have studied shark skin to help create faster swimsuits and more efficient ship designs because sharks are somehow naturally aerodynamic underwater.

If you rubbed your hand from tail to head on a shark, it would feel extremely rough, but from head to tail it feels much smoother because of the direction the denticles face. Not that I recommend touching a shark to test that fact yourself.

Honestly I think it’s kind of amazing that sharks evolved skin that works like built-in armor, camouflage, and speed enhancement all at once. The ocean really made them into living torpedoes !!

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Shark fact. day two

Sharks are older than trees.

which is honestly one of those facts that completely changes how you look at them. Sharks have existed for over 400 million years, while trees didn’t appear until around 350 million years ago. That means sharks were already swimming through Earth’s oceans millions of years before forests even existed.

Imagine an ancient world with no birds singing, no grass, no flowers, and barely any life on land at all. The oceans were already home to sharks long before dinosaurs appeared. Sharks have survived multiple mass extinctions, huge climate changes, and entire eras of Earth’s history that wiped out countless other species.

There are sharks alive today whose distant ancestors existed before Saturn even had its rings in the form we know them now. That’s such an absurd amount of time that it almost stops feeling real !!

Honestly, every shark swimming in the ocean today kind of feels like a living fossil. They’ve been here through almost everything Earth has ever gone through, and somehow they’re still just out there existing like it’s completely normal.