http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm4261/archive/tags/buoyancy/default.aspxTags: buoyancyenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm4261/archive/2008/02/06/the-skeletal-material-of-choice-for-the-ocean-s-giant-fishes.aspxWed, 06 Feb 2008 09:14:00 GMTe49c60f1-e4eb-4cbb-ba94-e245dcbf35fa:10176N. Sivasothi0http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm4261/comments/10176.aspxhttp://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm4261/commentrss.aspx?PostID=10176In "No Bones About ’Em," Adam Summers asks "why did the ancestors of today’s sharks and other cartilaginous fishes abandon bone in favor of a skeletal material that other large animals use only sparingly? I have recently come to think that cartilage gives sharks at least one important selective advantage: they can grow much bigger than bony fishes." <p><div class="thumbnail" align="center"><a href="http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0307/0307_biomechanics.html"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080206-887kmagrh67yf6s2qak2nft1h2.preview.jpg" alt="" /></a></div> <p>See <a href="http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0307/0307_biomechanics.html">"No Bones About ’Em,"</a> by Adam Summers with illustrations by Tom Moore. Natural History Magazine, March 2007. <img src="http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10176" width="1" height="1">nektonbuoyancy