Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In this video, we look at a bunch of fish with strange heads. I'll show off a sawfish, sawshark, winghead hammerhead shark, paddlefish, baby paddlefish, and a shovelnose sturgeon.

This video answers all of the following questions:
- What is a sawfish?
- What is a sawshark?
- Why do sawfish have saws?
- Why do paddlefish have paddles?
- Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer shaped heads?
- How do sturgeon hunt?

Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology