QuickCheck: Can sharks walk on land?


An epaulette shark wiggling its way up the beach. It's been known to use its unique form of locomotion to crawl its way from tide pool to tide pool in search of food. - Courtesy of mrpbps CC BY 2.0

SHARKS have a bad reputation, no thanks to a certain movie from back in 1975, and have long been vilified as monsters from the deep.

But is it true that some sharks can walk on land?

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