This was I have heard and read everyone discussing Shark Week. I don’t have cable anymore so I am forced to sit back and hear about all this footage of how sharks are eating folks or how cool one of them looks. Fuck that. Sharks are natures way of saying “See all this water? Stay out of it!” Sharks are assholes. I look at sharks and the sea the same way a kid looks at a monster in the closet. As long as I don’t look and keep away from it I’ll be safe.
And please, everyone, stop telling me that sharks don’t even like the way we taste or that we look like things they normally eat and in the same sentence tell me how smart they are and how great their senses are. Sharks just want to remind us every once in a while that they can and will eat us because they’re bored or upset that Breaking Bad is going off the air.
Frilled Shark
“The long jaws of the frilled shark are highly distensible with an extremely wide gape, allowing it to swallow whole prey over one-half its size. However, the length and articulation of its jaws means it cannot deliver as strong a bite as more conventionally built sharks. The many small, sharp, recurved teeth of the frilled shark are functionally similar to squid jigs and could easily snag the body or tentacles of a squid, particularly as they are rotated outwards when the jaws are protruded.”
