What are the eating habits of a Black Sea spiny shark?

Spiny dog fish are mostly bottom dwellers. They use their ampullae of Lorenzini (electrosensory organ) in their snout to detect smaller prey animals at depth or in the sand. For the moat part if it fits in the mouth it will be swallowed when it comes to sharks. It is part of the reason sharks are so vulnerable. read more

Spiny dog fish are mostly bottom dwellers. They use their ampullae of Lorenzini (electrosensory organ) in their snout to detect smaller prey animals at depth or in the sand. read more

The spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is one of the best known species of the Squalidae (dogfish) family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order. While these common names may apply to several species, Squalus acanthias is distinguished by having two spines (one anterior to each dorsal fin) and lacks an anal fin. read more