#sawfish

[soviet-furries]

Doctor Aybolit (Доктор-Айболит)

Victor Chizhikov / Виктор Чижиков

1990

[herpsandbirds]

Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis), family Pristidae, order Rhinopristiformes, found in tropicsal and subtropical coastal regions around the world

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

photos via: The Ocean Foundation & Simon Fraser University

[proserpiiart]

Another illustration that's really close to my heart! Most of you know I adore ocean life and it's been absolutely wonderful to research and draw all these little shark guys and the creatures they eat!

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!

[catphlegm]

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

[i-give-you-a-fish]

trick or treat!!! 🐟🎣🪼🦭🦐

Hold him like a shotgun

You get a Common Sawfish

Pristis pristis

[joemophobic]

My dad: "how's the job search going"

Me:

[transparentfossil]

3.45" Fossil Sawfish (Onchopristis) Rostral Barb - Morocco

[sharkrard]

gerard way as a guitarshark Rhina ancylostoma

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