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Are sharks bony?
No sharks are not 'bony'. The skeletal makeup of sharks is cartilage. Although cartilage is dense and can be bone-like it is significantly less dense than bone.
What attaches tooth to the bone?
cartilage
What do sharks have instead of a bone?
cartlige
Do tiger sharks have bones?
No, no shark has bone, all sharks have cartilage instead.
Are sharks jaws made of bones?
No. there is no bone in a sharks body. The sharks skeleton is made of cartilage.
What are fish skeletons made of - bone and cartiladge?
Sharks, rays and ratfish have cartilage but its not sharks. Boney fish (like their name suggests) have bone in the mix - but they still have a lot of cartilage.
Are sharks invertebres?
Sharks are not invertebrates, they have a vertebrae. It is just made out of cartilage, as opposed to bone.
Do great white sharks have backbones?
Sharks are vertebrates (they belong to the phylum Cordata), so they have a spinal chord. However they are also cartilaginous fishes (they belong the the class Chondrichthyes) meaning that their skeleton is made of cartilage instead of bone. They do have a cartilage sheath that surrounds their spinal chord which could be considered a spine. There could be a semantic debate over whether that constitutes a spine, but I for one think it does.
Do sharks have bony skeloten?
No.Sharks have a cartilaginous skeleton.(Although very large sharks, like C. Megalodon and other extinct megatooth sharks, had vertebral centra so hard that they fossilized in a similar way as bone tissue.)
Are sharks different than whales?
YES! Sharks are fish and whales are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and nurse their young. Also Sharks only have bone in their jaw bone. The support for the rest of their body is cartilage.
Which fish does not have bones?
Most fish have bones. Sharks and rays do not have bones but they do have bone-like structures that are made from cartilage.
How much cartilage does a shark have?
the shark has about 85% of the body is cartilage because with out it they can not move as fast or as agile as they are with it
