#winghead shark

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Todays shark is...

The Winghead Shark!

Fun Fact: They have a wing-shaped head which is nearly or quite half of its body length, the function of which is uncertain, maybe for manoeuvring or for increasing the surface area of some the sense organs!

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Daily Shark Fact - 8/13/2025

Today's shark is the winghead shark!

The basics: the winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii) is named for the exceptionally long size of its cephalofoil, which proportionally is the longest of all sharks in the hammerhead family! The winghead shark's cephalofoil can be half as long as the shark's body. This allows them to profit from the benefits all hammerheads share (namely a longer span for their ampullae of Lorenzini and thus better electroreception while hunting) to the extreme, and they're successful predators of bony fishes and crustaceans. These sharks grow to about six feet long and live in shallow coastal waters.

Conservation status: endangered. Winghead sharks are over-fished for their meat, fins, and liver oil.

Today's fun fact: the winghead shark is the only member of the hammerhead shark family that does not belong to the genus Sphyrna. It was once assumed that a shorter cephalofoil was a basal trait of hammerheads and got longer with further specialization, but genetic studies of this species have indicated the opposite is true, as the winghead is actually the most basal of all extant hammerhead species! This indicates a longer cephalofoil was present in the earliest hammerhead sharks, and the more extreme morphology we see in wingheads is a basal trait while the shorter shapes of other hammerheads is a much newer trait.

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Selachii infraclass, round 3: Winghead Shark vs Bonnethead

Winghead Shark

Bonnethead

Voting ended onMay 20

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Daily fish fact #662

Winghead shark!

It is a special case in the hammerhead family, as its cephalofoil (which means the distinct head shape of the hammerheads) can be half as wide as its entire body is long. Much like in other hammerheads, their cephalofoil offers ample space for electroreptor organs and gives them a wider range of vision — not to mention gives ample space for their long, very elongated nostrils that they can better use to detect smells!

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Sea life art pieces by Mitizure (shop), made using tsumami zaiku (folded silk squares) technique. You can see here a whale and her calf, a sea turtle, a sea angel/clione, an anomalocaris (?), and a winghead shark.

I also really like those other works (moth+rooster):

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Alternative Mermay #4: Winghead shark with legs (can't walk through normal doorways)