Photo by: Doug Costa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSpiny Dogfish Fast Fact – <\/strong>The next time you hear a pregnant woman complain about having to carry a baby for nine months remind her that a Spiny Dogfish has a 2 year gestation period.\u00a0 I must warn you that you should probably be careful when suggesting for the pregnant woman to suck it up but it will make you look smart (well not smart enough to keep your mouth shut). The Spiny Dogfish will produce between 2 and 15 Dogfish pups. Hey, I just realized that their babies are called “pups” and they are DOGfish.\u00a0 I bet that is not a coincidence.<\/p>\nAll right, I think I am getting a little giddy so I should probably end the fact here.\u00a0 Have a great weekend everyone and I will see you bright and early Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I was swimming back up from the ocean floor yesterday, after observing the amazing Giant Isopod, I came across the Spiny Dogfish shark.\u00a0 Since I was already in my scuba gear, I figured I would take a couple of minutes to study the shark and report back to you for the final Wild Fact of the week. In all honesty, I already know quite a bit about this particular shark since I had to dissect one during my Chordate Anatomy Class in University.\u00a0 This would actually make sense since the Spiny Dogfish is thought to be the most researched <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4024],"tags":[348,1161,1163,4025,295,298,1160,1162],"yoast_head":"\n
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