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2024 was an exceptionally calm year for shark bites. Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70. Four of last year’s attacks resulted in fatalities, also a significant reduction from recent years. The International Sha
Pregnant females often navigate upstream, where there are fewer predators that pose a danger

Pomoxis nigromaculatus Crappies are a popular game fish and prized as a food source, so their original range of the Eastern US has been artificially expanded by stocking lakes, ponds, and rivers across the mainland US. The black crappie looks very similar to the white crappie except that it has m
Danger to Humans The black crappie is omnivorous, and without predators around they

Hydrolagus colliei This smooth, scale-less chimaera can grow to 24 inches long, a good deal of which is the long tail. It’s named for its brown-gray iridescent coloring, spotted with white. It has a short, rabbit-like face, large triangular pectoral fins, and a short dorsal fin that starts with a
Danger to Humans Although not considered dangerous to humans, care should be taken

Torpedo marmorata This solitary coastal ray has electric organs on its pectoral disc that can stun a human or kill a fish. It is pale brown with dark brown mottling, and has two small dorsal fins on its stout tail near its large caudal fin. Usually it can be found on muddy or sandy bottoms of
Danger to Humans A large adult marbled electric ray can deliver a painful and stunning

Hypanus americanus These diamond-shaped rays are olive-brown to green-grey on top and creamy white underneath. Their pectoral fins can grow up to a total width of 79 inches, which they use to stir up the sandy ocean floor to either reveal crustaceans and small fish, or bury themselves to hide fro
Danger to Humans The southern stingray is a non-aggressive animal, posing little

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Many of this collection’s poets remind us of the danger or futility of drawing

Dipturus laevis These long-lived, slow-growing skates have diamond shaped pectoral discs with very pointed snouts and stout tails. They are reddish brown on top, with dark spots, dark blotches and light streaks; and they are light underneath with some light markings. These bottom-dwellers are the
Danger to Humans Barndoor skates are considered harmless to humans.

Scyliorhinus retifer These slim sharks are reddish brown to light yellow underneath, with a distinctive dark brown or black chain pattern down their bodies. They have rounded snouts and large oval eyes, and somewhat lobed fins set further back towards their asymmetrical, notched caudal (tail) fin
Danger to Humans Chain dogfish are considered harmless to humans due to their small

Callorhinchus milii This unusual family of ‚chimaera‘ branched off from sharks almost 400 million years ago. The ghost shark is easily identified because of their very large, high-set eyes, and the club-like structure at the end of their snouts. Their protruding snout is made to search for food p
Danger to Humans Ghost sharks have a long spine located just in front of the first

Bathytoshia brevicaudata The largest of the rays, these can grow up to almost 7 feel across and 770 pounds. They’re slightly diamond shaped, wider than they are long, with a stocky tail shorter than the length of their bodies as adults. Although they are slow-moving in general, they can flap thei
Danger to Humans The short-tail stingray is often observed raising its tail similar