A great hammerhead shark’s two eyes can be 3 feet apart on opposite sides of its skull.
Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer-shaped heads?
Hammerhead sharks are the strange-looking ones. They look like someone grabbed their skull by the eye sockets and stretched their heads out sideways, while the rest of their bodies look like those of a normal shark.
You might wonder – what are the advantages of having a hammer-shaped head? And how did hammerhead sharks get that way in the first place?
I’m a scientist who has been studying sharks for almost 30 years. The answers to some of these questions have surprised even me.
Source: SciTechDaily
Published in Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Sharks, The Conversation and University of Florida
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