Edwin

Because I don't know why.

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tarable-ptaradactyl:

omg do sharks have tongues? 

i was just thinking about what it would be like to be eaten by shark and then i thought about a tongue. 

i dont know i dont think they do. 

What if sharks just licked you all sweet like. 

*ahem*

They have a long piece of cartilage running up their front to support the gill arches and this extends all the way forwards into their mouth (or their mouth extends back a long way!).

The very end of this cartilage is called the basihyal (ba-see-HI-al) and this is the shark’s tongue. For most sharks it doesn’t do very much but just sits in the bottom of their mouth. But for other sharks it does very interesting things.

http://science-at-home.org/shark-tongues/

Filed under i'll just leave that there tara you're one of my favorites