I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species.

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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 297d (8 replies)

The teeth are mostly flat, indicating that it's an herbivore. With the eyes on the front side of the face, that indicates that it's a predator, due to its binocular vision. So this rare specimen hunts ambulatory plants. A very rare find indeed! Yay science!!

Ack@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 297d (1 reply)

It looks like it’s flying too. Those ambulatory plants must be FAST!

Jayjader@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 294d

You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it's life?

fartographer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d (2 replies)

The eyes appear to be coming from their nostrils. I wonder what evolutionary pressures squeezed their eyes out their nose.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 297d

Perhaps they're like frogs, which sometimes use their eyeballs to swallow and, uh ... The eyeballs got lost along the way?

icelimit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 296d

They see the smells. And smell the sees.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 297d

Sharks do not have binocular vision in the same way humans do, so their depth perception is less precise. They rely more on monocular cues (e.g., size, movement, and overlap of objects) and motion parallax (relative motion of objects at different distances) to estimate depth.

This dude a freak

toynbee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d (1 reply)

Sounds useful for when the triffids come.

No one ever laughs when I make this reference.

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 297d

Hmm, I don't remember the book exploring bodies of water and the triffids. And I've read it recently.

Underappreciated apocalypse universe, that.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 297d

A species related to the hammerhead. Its called the cokehead

AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 297d (1 reply)
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danc4498@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 297d

Megaladerp

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 297d (1 reply)

Thats just my girl Hork, don't mind her she just wants to chill.

moseschrute@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d

Classic Hork

shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
wewbull@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 297d

I think you're seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.

rikudou@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 297d

That's Sphyrna derpi!

OpenStars@piefed.social · 2 pts · 297d

When I asked around the answer I kept repeatedly being given was "no, just... no. HELL no!" /s

bebabalula@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 297d

That right there is an upside down person with googly eyes on their chin!

klemptor@startrek.website · 1 pts · 297d

It's a rare fruit punch mouth shark.