Fun Swell Shark Facts For Kids
A swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) is a fish species from the catshark family Scyliorhinidae. It is named the swell shark because of its defensive tactics against predators wherein it ‘swells’ up its body with water, making it harder for a predator to manipulate or even attack it, sometimes even wedging it between rocky crevices. The swell shark species are found in the temperate eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay in Central California to the Gulf of California, and going down to southern Mexico as well as up to central Chile....