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🦈 Daily Shark Fact: 🦈

Spotted Wobbegong Shark- Wobbegong might sound like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, but it is a real word. It comes from a native Australian word that means “shaggy beard”. In Australia, wobbegong sharks are lovingly called “wobbies”.

"Shaggy beard" is an apt description because wobbegong sharks do look like they have a beard. They have whiskers (called barbels) around their noses, and flaps of skin that look like tiny fins around their mouths and eyes and on the sides of their heads.

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The Child's Picture Scrap Book. Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Illustrations by John Gilbert, J. D. Watson, Wolf, Coleman, etc. 1865.

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Doing research on barbels (basically fish whiskers) for a design project

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Did you know? 👉#Koi Can Taste 👉Those whiskers are called #barbels, and #Koi have them to help them taste.They have taste buds,just like your tongue. #Koi...

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Featured Species: Whitespotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum)

Featured Species: Whitespotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum)

This week’s featured species is one of my husband’s favorite shark species, and therefore one that is very special to me, too! (It’s not often my husband admits he likes sharks; he thinks the ocean is boring- GASP! So when he said this was one of his favorite species I almost cried!) The Whitespotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) is a small member of the Hemiscylliidae family (Ebert,…

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