Are Street Sharks Mammals or Fish?

[ReZourceman]

Please help with this.

 

Were you impressed by me?

 

Not really. There were cooler fish in the same tank.

 

Like what?

 

 

Street Sharks are mammals.

 

No they aren't they're fish.

 

Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate, air-breathing animals whose females are characterized by the possession of mammary glands while both males and females are characterized by hair and/or fur, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex region in the brain. Some mammals have sweat glands, but most do not.

Mammals are divided into three main infraclass taxa depending how they are born. These taxa are: monotremes, marsupials and placentals. Except for the five species of monotremes (which lay eggs), all mammal species give birth to live young. Most mammals also possess specialized teeth, and the largest group of mammals, the placentals, use a placenta during gestation. The mammalian brain regulates endothermic and circulatory systems, including a four-chambered heart.

There are approximately 5,400 species of mammals, distributed in about 1,200 genera, 153 families, and 29 orders[1] (though this varies by classification scheme). Mammals range in size from the 30–40 millimeter (1- to 1.5-inch) Bumblebee Bat to the 33-meter (108-foot) Blue Whale.

Mammals are divided into two subclasses: the Prototheria, which includes the oviparous monotremes, and the Theria, which includes the placentals and live-bearing marsupials. Most mammals, including the six largest orders, belong to the placental group. The three largest orders, in descending order, are Rodentia (mice, rats, porcupines, beavers, capybaras, and other gnawing mammals), Chiroptera (bats), and Soricomorpha (shrews, moles and solenodons). The next three largest orders include the Carnivora (dogs, cats, weasels, bears, seals, and their relatives), the Cetartiodactyla (including the even-toed hoofed mammals and the whales) and the Primates to which the human species belongs. The relative size of these latter three orders differs according to the classification scheme and definitions used by various authors.

Phylogenetically, Mammalia is defined as all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of monotremes (e.g., echidnas and platypuses) and therian mammals (marsupials and placentals).[2] This means that some extinct groups of "mammals" are not members of the crown group Mammalia, even though most of them have all the characteristics that traditionally would have classified them as mammals.[3] These "mammals" are now usually placed in the unranked clade Mammaliaformes.

The mammalian line of descent diverged from an amniote line at the end of the Carboniferous period. One line of amniotes would lead to reptiles, while the other would lead to synapsids. According to cladistics, mammals are a sub-group of synapsids. Although they were preceded by many diverse groups of non-mammalian synapsids (sometimes misleadingly referred to as mammal-like reptiles), the first true mammals appeared in the Triassic period. Modern mammalian orders appeared in the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs of the Palaeogene period.

 

A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Most fish are "cold-blooded", or ectothermic, allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change. Fish are abundant in most bodies of water. They can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from high mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish). At 31,500 species, fish exhibit greater species diversity than any other class of vertebrates.[1]

 

Street Sharks is an American animated television series about crime-fighting half-man/half-sharks similar to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was produced by DIC Entertainment from 1994 to 1995. Later in 1996 the Street Sharks teamed up with the Dino Vengers (an early and vastly different-in-origin incarnation of the Extreme Dinosaurs) and the show became Street Sharks and the Dino Vengers. Like a number of children's cartoons, it was created to promote an existing Mattel toy line of the same name,[1] created by toy maven David Siegel and writer/creative director, Joe Galliani of Mr. Joe's Really Big Productions.[2]

 

Big Slammu (Coop Bolton): Coop is the sport-oriented brother, and the strongest of the four as well as the youngest. He is also a football player in high school. In the first episode, he uses a skateboard to get around. When he transforms into Slammu, he becomes a Whale Shark. In the episode "Stone Cold Cod" the Street Sharks travel to a volcanic region in South America. It is revealed in the episode that Big Slammu (and presumably the other Street Sharks) are warm blooded, and thus are mammals. His most prominently featured attack is called "Seismic Slam", where Slammu sets off an earthquake by hitting the ground with his fists. Coop/Slammu was voiced by D. Kevin Williams.

 

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Edited August 5, 2010 by ReZourceman

[MoogleViper]

Even some fish have "warm-blooded" features. Swordfish and some sharks have circulatory mechanisms that keep their brains and eyes at above ambient temperatures, and thus increase their ability to detect and react to prey.[1][2][3] Tunas and some sharks have similar mechanisms in their muscles, improving their stamina when swimming at high speed.[4]

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This is probably what was meant when they said they were warm blooded.

[ReZourceman]

Source

 

This is probably what was meant when they said they were warm blooded.

 

That was just a quote I made up to try and prove I was right (lol). I actually don't know.

 

What is the definition of a mammal? I find it hard to believe Street Sharks are just fish.

[MoogleViper]

Well female mammals have mammary glands. All mammals (bar platypus, echidna and I think there's another) give birth to their young.

[ReZourceman]

This is sounding difficult to find out the answer.

[Cube]

They're fimmals.

[weeyellowbloke]

Do they have nipples? I reckon they could be a highly evolved form of Sharky from Sharky and George.

[Dan_Dare]

[Sheikah]

Well clearly they are a cross between man (mammal) and sharks (fish). Therefore neither mammal nor fish.

 

It would be tempting to go with amphibian, and seeing as they can live on land and presumably in water they are probably paedomorphs. They kept the ability to breathe underwater as they grew up.

 

I feel ridiculous for giving this a proper response.

[ReZourceman]

they are probably paedomorphs.

 

AFAIK those allegations were untrue.

[Daft]

Mammals don't lay eggs. Sharks do.

[MoogleViper]

 

AFAIK those allegations were untrue.

 

Is it bad that I was going to post something similar?

[Paj!]

They're mutated humans.

 

What I find more disconcerting is that they eats tons of concrete. They must have a super digestive system.

[Cube]

They're mutated humans.

 

What I find more disconcerting is that they eats tons of concrete. They must have a super digestive system.

 

Perhaps they shit bricks.

[Sheikah]

As I typed that, I realised the inevitability of ReZ's swift reply.

[EEVILMURRAY]

You're getting desparate ReZ.

What is the definition of a mammal? I find it hard to believe Street Sharks are just fish.

What do you think the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles are? Besides heroes in a half shell*

 

Mutants dammit, just like the Biker Mice from Mars/pretty much any anthropomorphic cartoon character.

 

The answer to your question, as always comes from the Wiki:

half-man/half-sharks similar to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Problem solved.

 

 

 

*Turtle Power.

[Gizmo]

Neither: they are pool.

[Jonnas]

Mammals don't lay eggs. Sharks do.

 

False. Ever heard of the Echidna or the Platypus?

 

What do you think the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles are? Besides heroes in a half shell*

*Turtle Power.

 

The thing is, the turtles were normal turtles who gained developed vocal chords and the ability to stand on two legs. The street sharks were humans who got turned into half-sharks.

 

The question is, can the Street Sharks breathe on water? If so, they're amphibians. If not, then they're mammals.

[Nolan]

Mammals don't lay eggs. Sharks do.

 

False. Ever heard of the Echidna or the Platypus?

 

Not all sharks lay eggs either.

[Paj!]

Either way...

 

I just found the advert that still haunts my dreams.

 

I remember being so impressed with the fact it was "real people transforming!".

 

And I remember setting up a bucket of water when playing with my Street Sharks, just so I could dump Piranoid or whatever in it like in the advert. (Though I had a different version. Mine was cooler, and blue.)

[EEVILMURRAY]

The thing is, the turtles were normal turtles who gained developed vocal chords and the ability to stand on two legs. The street sharks were humans who got turned into half-sharks.

So the Turtles weren't intentionally mutated, what's your point?

[Jonnas]

So the Turtles weren't intentionally mutated, what's your point?

 

Turtles used to be reptiles and didn't gain anything that questions the fact that they stayed reptiles.

 

The sharks, on the other hand were humans who became shark-like. Bigger difference there.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

Turtles used to be reptiles and didn't gain anything that questions the fact that they stayed reptiles.

 

The sharks, on the other hand were humans who became shark-like. Bigger difference there.

One thing I always found entertaining is that if you go by the old TMNT cartoons, the turtles were originally turtles, but Splinter was human. Since the turtles look like turtles, but walk on two legs and behave like humans, shouldn't Splinter still look like a human, but crawl around on the floor and behave like a rat? :p

[MoogleViper]

One thing I always found entertaining is that if you go by the old TMNT cartoons, the turtles were originally turtles, but Splinter was human. Since the turtles look like turtles, but walk on two legs and behave like humans, shouldn't Splinter still look like a human, but crawl around on the floor and behave like a rat? :p

 

That's the thing with mutations, they don't tend to follow rules.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Turtles used to be reptiles and didn't gain anything that questions the fact that they stayed reptiles.

 

The sharks, on the other hand were humans who became shark-like. Bigger difference there.

Besides the vocal chords and ability to walk like a human you previously mentioned, just because they started off as turtles doesn't mean they're still 100% turtle. Based on their human characteristics they are in part human/mammal.

One thing I always found entertaining is that if you go by the old TMNT cartoons, the turtles were originally turtles, but Splinter was human. Since the turtles look like turtles, but walk on two legs and behave like humans, shouldn't Splinter still look like a human, but crawl around on the floor and behave like a rat? :p

In the movie he was a Rat.

 

It's getting all Bicentennial Man now...