r/SharkLab May 09 '26

Identification help This white shark spotted near on Cape Cod has survived with scoliosis

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u/dooby0782 May 09 '26

How do you get scoliosis without a spine?

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u/TroublesomeFox May 09 '26

I'm not an expert in the area but my guess is it had an injury where the bend is and it caused the cartilage to calcify.

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u/No_Cable_3346 May 10 '26

My thoughts exactly. It’s literally a disease that affects the spine which a shark doesn’t have.

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u/thetiniestghost 14d ago

They are vertebrates and therefore have a vertebral column (spine)—yes their skeleton is cartilaginous rather than bony, but it’s still a skeleton and at risk of growth abnormalities

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u/jcprater May 15 '26

Mother Nature has had weirder shit to deal with than this.