Jaw ready for this? 🦈 It’s Shark Week! Alaska is home to several shark species including: salmon sharks (Lamna ditropis), spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi), and Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus). Sharks are prevalent enough in Southeast Alaska to have found their way in to Tlingit culture. The Wooshkeetaan clan of the Xunaa Kwáan (Hoonah and Glacier Bay area) has the shark as their primary crest, and numerous other clans include it as a secondary crest. Image: Shark detail on the Wooshkeetaan Clan House Post glacierbaynps #SharkWeek #sharks #nature #nationalparks #alaska #glacierbay