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For the past month we have been dissecting a shark(cartilaginous fish) and a cat(vertebrae mammal) to learn the differences in structure and organs. So far we have skinned both animals to uncover the muscles. If you have never skinned an animal before let me tell you that it is very time consuming and frustrating. Do to some squeamish readers I will not go into great detail.

But this is not the exciting part of the class. This last week we began to open up the body cavity to learn the organs and digestive structures. Well in both species at least one group in our lab had a pregnant specimen. The table behind ours had a pregnant shark, with 4 shark babies, almost fully developed. They were so cut to see a mini shark, only about 4 inches in length.

The following lab, we opened the cats and another table in our lab happened to have a pregnant cat, with one kitten. This wasn't as developed as the shark, but it still looked like a small furless kitten. It was so cute, to see it's little ears on the side of it's head. But this kitten also happened to be deformed, having 7 digits on each hand, and 6 on each foot (a normal cat have 5 digits on each hand and foot). This made the kitten's paw's extremely large, but it was still cute.