snout – Critter Science https://critter.science Animal Facts and Education Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:06:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://critter.science/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-critter-science_logo_icon-32x32.jpg snout – Critter Science https://critter.science 32 32 The Unique Looking Sawfish https://critter.science/the-unique-looking-sawfish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-unique-looking-sawfish https://critter.science/the-unique-looking-sawfish/#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2021 07:00:07 +0000 https://critter.science/?p=10602 sawfish

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With their elongated, flattened snout that looks more like a hedge trimmer than a feature you’d find on a fish or shark, the sawfish is truly unique. There are 5 known species of sawfish in oceans off the coasts of Australia, Japan, and South Africa. Besides the ocean, they can […]

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This diminutive antelope with a big nose that kind of looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book is called a saiga antelope. Saigas dwell in the freezing, treeless Eurasian steppes and is tirelessly hunted by poachers for their horns for folk medicine. Their horns are supposedly remedies for […]

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