You may have seen a sawfish from up above or from the side but have you ever seen one from below?
The underside of a sawfish houses their nostrils and gills. But what they look like up close is a person’s face in the midst of making some judgment.
Just look at this thing:
Take a closer look:
The sawfish uses the 88–128 teeth in their upper mouth and 84–176 teeth in the lower jaw to grind crabs and small fish into bits. They use their “saw-like” snout, called a rostrum that juts out of their flat head to detect, stun, and manipulate prey in the murky waters they inhabit.
There are transverse teeth on the saw extension as well.
Once widespread across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, sawfish are now classified as endangered species — commonly hunted for their liver, fins, meat, and skin.
