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moody@lemmings.world 12 hours agoAre 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.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Well, I’m touching a shark right now. Rubbing it every which way. No direction is off limits. It’s smoother than the finest silks
Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 hours ago
But other question, is shark wet?
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Presumably their skin doesn’t absorb or hold water much, if at all. So shark is probably dry