• moody@lemmings.world
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    13 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 get injured brushing up against them.

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      12 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