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Did you know, that like snakes and lizards, most sharks are ectothermic? This means that, normally, they’re not capable of regulating their own body temperature. However, sharks that live in frigid Arctic waters have adapted an ability called counter-current heat exchange. This method of keeping warm, allows these sharks to survive in even the coldest of the world’s oceans.
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Pacific Sleeper Sharks <3
These cute dudes are thought to be both scavenger and predatory sharks. They are able to seemingly glide through the water with very little body movement and little noise as well. This would help them to be excellent stealth predators!! Their diet consists of Giant Pacific Octopus (remains), teleost fishes, soles, flounders, Alaska pollock, hermit crabs and even shrimps. But this has only been studied in the sharks up in Alaska.
Reproduction is a bit of a mystery! Very little is known about a Pacific sleeper shark but, they are believed to produce eggs that hatch inside the females body.
I love them alot. they remind me of the straight face emoji.
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Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) | Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus)
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Forrest Galante's Unbelievable Encounter with a Sleeper Shark | Shark We...
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sharktober day 11
frozen shark
#my art#sharktober#pacific sleeper shark#spiny dogfish shark#would fill in the bg later#but this is my 2nd fav piece i did
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#no fuckjng clue what kind of creature this is#edit its a pacific sleeper shark#my art#illustration#fish#maid
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Cryptid of the Day: Deepstar 4000 Fish
Description: In June of 1966, the Deepstar 4000 dove down 4000ft in the San Diego Trough, where one of the crew members saw a fish 20-40ft. Some say the fish was a Pacific Sleeper Shark, while others say it is an unknown species of deep-water fish.
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The tiger shark is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is a highly nomadic species which inhabits tropical and subtropical waters world wide up to 3,000ft (900m) in depth, and is often found in coastal waters with particular abundance in the gulf of mexico, Caribbean sea, Indian ocean, and western pacific. Tiger sharks are often call the garbage cans of the sea and have reputation for eating almost anything. As such there diet is wide and heavily varied an is known to regularly include: small fish, jellyfish, crustaceans, cephalopods and other mollusks, rays, skates, sawfish, sea birds, sea snakes, sea turtles, other sharks, dolphins, seals, sea lions, dugongs, manatees, crocodilians, porpoises, and sick or injured whales. When near islands or coastlines they have been known to eat sheep, goats, dogs, pigs, rats, horses, deer, cattle, cats, camels, monkeys, inland birds, bats, lizards and inedible objects, such as license plates, cans, tires, books, boat oars, soccerballs and baseball bats. Tiger sharks are themselves occasionally preyed upon by orcas, great whites, and saltwater crocodiles. The tiger shark commonly reaches 10.5-14ft (3.2 -4.26m) in length and 385- 1400lbs (175 – 635kg) in weight, with the largest recorded reaching 18ft (5.5m) long and 3360lbs (1525kg). This ranks the tiger shark amongst the largest extant sharks on earth only being surpassed by the whale, basking, great white, pacific sleeper, Greenland, and blunt nosed sixgill sharks. They have a broad snout and stocky body with proportionally large fins and a long upper tail. Tiger shark teeth are unique with very sharp, pronounced serrations and an unmistakable sideways-pointing tip. Such dentition has developed to slice through flesh, bone, and other tough substances such as turtle shells. In the northern hemisphere the mating season takes place from march to may and the southern hemisphere from November to January, with males breeding every year while females breed once every 3 years. After a year long pregnancy mother tiger sharks give birth to 10 to 80 pups. Under ideal conditions a tiger shark may live upwards of 12 years.
#pleistocene#pleistocene pride#pliestocene pride#pliestocene#fish#shark#shark week#tiger#tiger shark
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can i request a shark youve already posted about. cause if so PLSSS talk abt the greenland shark again.. i am IRREGULAR abt them .............
DYK… (part 2)
greenland shark also known as the gurry sharkor grey shark, is a large shark of the family Somniosidae ("sleeper sharks"), closely related to the Pacific and southern sleeper sharks.
greenland shark is a potentially important yet poorly studied cold-water species inhabiting the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
greenland shark has 3 kinds of hemoglobin and a high concentration of trimethylamine N-oxide in its tissues to increase buoyancy. this causes the meat to be toxic to mammals.
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Forrest Galante describing a pacific sleeper shark as “like a beautiful nightmare” is quite possibly my favorite description of any animal, like are those not the exact vibes this thing invokes
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trick or treat :3 hi
hiiiii oliver happy early halloween:3
PACIFIC SLEEPER SHARK BE UPON YE
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“Oh FUCK YEAH I’ll download that PDF.”
- @liltumgrum , who had until then been silently staring at their phone while we ate breakfast
The PDF in question was, of course, a scientific paper comparing the brain structure of Greenland sharks and Pacific sleeper sharks.
#I cannot describe to you how strange of an experience it is to exist in my household lmao#disaster sibling tag
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What's your favourite shark, either extant or extinct?
That's like asking a mother to choose her favorite child at gunpoint. I them all so much <3
But if I *had* to choose, I'm very partial to Leopard Sharks (the North American ones, Australia and SE Asia also has one that we call zebra sharks). They're very pretty and live in shallow, coastal waters, so it's a treat when I can find them.
I also really like the large, extremely old sleeper shark species- Greenland sharks, Pacific sleeper sharks, and southern sleeper sharks. There's something oddly peaceful and comforting about the fact that the deepest depths of the oceans are populated by enormous, slow moving, carrion eating, nonaggresive, long lived sharks. They feel like sheperds of death in a way.
Also shout-out to helicoprion for being a funky lil guy
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Links to every shark poll
ROUND 1
Blacknose shark vs Horn shark
Blacktip reef shark vs Basking shark
Blue shark vs Common thresher shark
Bonnethead shark vs Crocodile shark
Brown shyshark vs Goblin shark
Bull shark vs Longfin mako shark
Caribbean reef shark vs Megamouth shark
Copper shark vs Porbeagle shark (link was wrong, if you see this reblog this version instead!)
Dusky shark vs Salmon shark
Galapagos shark vs Shortfin mako shark
Great hammerhead shark vs Bluegrey carpet shark
Grey reef shark vs White shark
Lemon shark vs Epaulette shark
Leopard shark vs Nurse shark
Oceanic whitetip shark vs Spotted wobbegong
Pacific sharpnose shark vs Tawny nurse shark
Pyjama shark vs Whale shark
Sand tiger shark vs Whitespotted bamboo shark
Sandbar shark vs Zebra shark
Scalloped hammerhead shark vs Japanese saw shark
Sharptooth lemon shark vs Angular roughshark
Silky shark vs Bramble shark
Silvertip shark vs Cookiecutter shark
Small-spotted catshark vs Greenland shark
Smoothhound vs Gulper shark
Spinner shark vs Kitefin shark
Tiger shark vs Pacific sleeper shark
White tip reef shark vs Prickly shark
Bluntnose sixgill shark vs Pygmy shark
Broadnose sevengill shark vs Spiny dogfish
Frilled shark vs Velvet lantern shark
Sharpnose sevengill shark vs Angel shark
ROUND 2 (Up on Feb 12, 5PM GMT +3)
Horn shark vs Basking shark
Common thresher shark vs Bonnethead shark
Goblin shark vs Bull shark
Caribbean reef shark vs Porbeagle shark
Dusky shark vs Shortfin mako shark
Great hammerhead shark vs Great white shark
Epaulette shark vs Leopard shark
Spotted wobbegong vs Tawny nurse shark
Whale shark vs Whitespotted bamboo shark
Zebra shark vs Scalloped hammerhead shark
Angular roughshark vs Silky shark
Cookie cutter shark vs Greenland shark
Smooth hound shark vs Spinner shark
Tiger shark vs Whitetip reef shark
Pygmy shark vs Spiny dogfish shark
Frilled shark vs Angel shark
ROUND 3 (Up on Feb 14, 4PM GMT +3)
Basking shark vs Common thresher shark
Goblin shark vs Porbeagle shark
Shortfin mako shark vs Great hammerhead shark
Leopard shark vs Spotted wobbegong
Whale shark vs Scalloped hammerhead shark
Angular roughshark vs Greenland shark
Spinner shark vs Tiger shark
Spiny dogfish shark vs Angel shark
ROUND 4 (Up on Feb 16, 4PM GMT +3)
Common thresher shark vs Goblin shark
Great hammerhead shark vs Spotted wobbegong
Whale shark vs Greenland shark
Spinner shark vs Angel shark
ROUND 5 (Up on Feb 18, 4PM GMT +3)
Common thresher shark vs Spotted wobbegong
Whale shark vs Spinner shark
(List will be edited as the rest of the polls take place!)
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portuguese dogfish are sleeper sharks! they live very very deep into waters, it’s the deepest living shark known.
they’re SO CUTE- they live up to 70 years old
they like
to stay near the bottom of their little homes! they’re pretty small sharks and pose no threats to humans :)
HOLY SHIT THEYRE SLEEPER SHARKS????? I LOVE SLEEPER SHARKS THEYRE SO CUTE :O !!!!!!! i love the pacific sleeper shark i think it's adorable and i want to hug it whahwhahwha <333
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Somnius pacificus, also known as Pacific sleeper sharks
#marine biology#marine life#marine art#shark#nature illustration#illustrator#marine biodiversity#biology#biodiversity
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