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Shark Dissection!!! (DUWW!)

Bartholomew

Bartholomew

Big Brotha Bart
Today, I was a part of the Shark Dissection for an Advanced Placement (AP) Biology class! It was the best thing ever. They were regular dog snarks and I was only taking pictures because I'm in the yearbook staff (High School) and there were two pages dedicated to AP Biology. I wont be in many pictures, but I still got to witness this happen, so it was just as great.
You might remember my other thread about the Fetal Pig Dissection. If not the link is right here Feel free to comment on that thread! Its still good. And I want it to get bumped up so everyone can see it again.
I will be taking AP Biology next year, and I will do the same activity next year. I cant wait!
So here they are!

Unboxing the sharks.
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Me holding the shark in the bag.
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Me holding the shark
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Double Take! Me and my partner in crime (Behind)
If you notice she's my same partner from the Fetal Pig Dissection
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The shark
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Underbelly of the shark
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Partner (Savannah) Cutting open the shark
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Thoes fin-looking-things are actually the liver(s) They are pretty long
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Female was Pregnant!
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More pictures to come! Please hold your comments until all the pictures are posted! Thanks! :)
 
Here are more Pictures!

Another groups' female was also pregnant. These look more developed
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Lining of the inside of the Stomach (looks like Rice. Haha)
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The esophagus bisected
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Savannah Being silly with the cartilage
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One of my peers sharks had eaten another shark, and this was the partially digested head. Pretty cool stuff!
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Trying to find the brain!
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Me holding the fetal shark, and the huge ball it was attached to
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All done? I think so!
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Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. This is something I will never forget!
I might be posting more pictures soon.
Check out the Fetal Pig Dissection thread! Once again, thanks for looking!
 
Thanks!
Robbie, I figured that was it. I wasnt sure though. Looked and felt like cheese when we cut it open.
 
No pics for me, either. I did sharks this year with my animal behavior classes. Unfortunately, we used a different company than we normally do and they sucked-- VERY small animals and most of them had parts of the intestines poking out of their anus which really affected the dissection. We won't buy from that company again.

I like the sharks because they are big enough for all the major organs to be obvious, they're interesting to the kids, and they are allowable according to our systems rules. We cannot dissect fetal pigs or any other type of mammal anymore because PETA picketed a local school in the early part of last decade. I so love those people....

Glad you got to enjoy a dissection. I can't say it enough-- there are some things about vetebrate bodies that you just can't learn via an online "program."
 
I don't see the pictures either unfortunately.

I had a vertebrate zoology lab in college in which we took the whole semester to individually dissect a cat and dogfish shark, 6-10 hours every week. It was very intensive, but I learned so much about the anatomy of those 2 animals (of course which can be extrapolated to anatomy of other animals, and humans). I was used to high school/entry level college courses where most dissections got straight to the organs. But in this class we spent weeks on just the muscles alone (separating them from each other, only cutting certain ones), then a few weeks on nerves and the brain (my sharks brain was compromised by water and not preserved well, it was a mess trying to spot all the nerves coming from it), then the circulatory system, then finally getting down to the gastrointestinal system and reproductive system. If you are interested in animal anatomy I'd definitely seek out a higher level vertebrate zoology/vertebrate anatomy class when you're in college after a couple years (if it fits with your major at least). Very interesting stuff!
 
Oh my gosh. I know whats the problem. I uploaded the pictures to my UserCP album, and I erased the album. I guess the pictutres got messed up with that.:cry:
I'm going to try and upload the pictures again, see if they pop up. I doubt it though. I might have to starrt a new thread. Sorry guys :(
 
I loved dissection at school, and got to spend a whole open evening for the school dissecting dogfish for the visiting parents and Governors when I was a teen. I had to narrate what I was doing and demonstrate the A&P as I went along. I was sorely disappointed at how many passed by quickly until the science teacher decided to start to shut my audience in the lab in groups for 10 minute presentations!
(The reason I was chosen was because I was the unofficial dissection champion, with top marks all the way through for my technique and anatomy drawings)
 
Where are the pics? Chop. Chop. You savvy?

Abraham, no fair getting our hopes all up and then running off...:laugh:
 
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