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Is the shark an invertebrate

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 10/9/2023

All fish, including elasmobranches (sharks, skates and Rays) are vertebrates. The thing is, their skeletons are made of cartiladge, not bone. The hardest part of the cartiladge is the vertebral column, which is made of calcified cartiladge.

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∙ 16y ago

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