Assertion: shark's skeleton | /r/MadeOf | cartilage
Facets:
value: like in modern sharks
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: What makes sharks different from fish is that their skeletons are made of cartilage instead of bone.
text: What makes sharks different from fish is that their skeletons are made of cartilage instead of bone.
text: their skeleton is made of cartilage, which is a tough, fibrous substance, not nearly as hard as bone.
text: The longest bony fish alive (sharks do not have bones; their skeletons are made of cartilage) is the giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne), which has been known to reach up to 36 feet (11 m), according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
text: Like all sharks, whale sharks don't have bones, rather their skeleton is made of cartilage.
text: A shark’s skeleton is made of cartilage – the soft tissue that makes up our nose and ears – rather than of bone.
text: Instead, they have skeletons made of cartilage, a flexible and lighter tissue which is also considered bone but gives sharks the speed underwater and the flexibility they need to be the dominant predators they are.
text: Like other elasmobranchs (a subclass of animals that also includes rays and skates), sharks have skeletons made of cartilage—the hard but flexible material that makes up human noses and ears.
text: They, like other Chondrichthyes, have skeletons made of cartilage instead of bone.
text: Because sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, they do not fossilize easily.
text: A shark is a type of fish that has a skeleton made of cartilage, which is a flexible tissue softer than bones.
text: Instead, they have a skeleton made of cartilage, reinforced with calcification (calcium builds up in the tissue, causing it to harden).
text: One difference is that a shark's skeleton is made of cartilage instead of bone.
text: A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage.
text: Sharks have skeletons made of cartilage, not bone, except for their vertebrae.
text: Frustratingly for paleontologists, skeletons made of cartilage don't persist in the fossil record nearly as well as skeletons made of bone, which is why so many prehistoric sharks are known primarily (if not exclusively) by their fossilized teeth.
text: Like in modern sharks, skeleton of C. megalodon was made of cartilage that quickly disintegrates after death.
text: Unlike most fish, sharks have no bones; their skeleton is made of cartilage.
text: Whale sharks have a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bones.
text: Although their skeletons are made of cartilage rather than hard bone, they are still considered vertebrates.
text: Sharks belong to a family of fish that have skeletons made of cartilage, a tissue more flexible and lighter than bone.
text: The whole skeleton is made of cartilages.