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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope. Sharks are smooth as hell in all directions.

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In general, the crowns of dermal denticles have cusps pointing tailward, which is why a shark feels relatively smooth if stroked from head-to-tail but sandpapery coarse if stroked the other way.

    www.elasmo-research.org/education/…/scales.htm

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    • Zorcron@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s telling me that shark skin is “smooth from all directions and at all times”

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      • moody@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Are you reading the same thing I’m reading? Literally every search result describes shark skin as dermal denticles, or sharp tooth-like scales aligned from front to back, “relatively smooth” in one direction, and sandpaper-like in the other.

        Apparently other animals regularly injured brushing up against them.

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