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Buffalo Braves

The Buffalo Braves were an American professional basketball team based in Buffalo, New York. The Braves competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. In 1978, owner John Y. Brown Jr. swapped franchises with then-Boston Celtics owner Irv Levin, who then moved the team to San Diego, where it was renamed the San Diego Clippers. The franchise relocated to Los Angeles in 1984, becoming the Los Angeles Clippers.

Play begins
The Braves were one of three NBA expansion teams that began to play in the 1970–71 season (the others being the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers). It was originally owned by Neuberger Loeb, a New York City investment firm that had few ties to Buffalo. However, a series of missteps resulted in the league taking control of the team before it even played a preseason game. By opening night, Paul Snyder, a then 33-year-old entrepreneur who had recently cashed in on the sale of his Freezer Queen business, had bought the franchise for $4 million. They played their home games at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, sharing the arena with another new franchise, the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Buffalo Sabres, who also debuted in 1970, as well as local college basketball teams that had used the auditorium for decades prior. Because the Braves only had third choice of dates (behind the Sabres and Canisius College Golden Griffins) at the auditorium, from 1971–75, the Braves were forced to play a total of 16 home games at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto; in addition to alleviating the auditorium's scheduling issues, the Braves also played internationally in the hopes of expanding their fan base beyond Western New York and into the Greater Toronto Area (a similar strategy was employed by the National Football League (NFL)'s Buffalo Bills from 2008 until 2013). The NBA had two previous teams in Upstate New York, the Rochester Royals and the Syracuse Nationals (who are now known as the Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers, respectively). As of 2022, the Braves are the last New York State-based NBA team to be based somewhere other than New York City, where the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets play.

Initial hiring
The team's first head coach was Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes and the franchise's first star players were Bob Kauffman and Don May, who were acquired in the 1970 NBA Expansion Draft. However, in the NBA Draft of 1970, Buffalo passed on hometown hero Calvin Murphy, a 5-foot-9 point guard from Niagara University and picked Princeton graduate, John Hummer, as their first round draft pick. Murphy would eventually be inducted into the Hall of Fame. As is typical of first-year expansion teams, the Braves finished with a dismal record, 22–60, seven games ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers, their expansion cousins, who finished at 15–67. Kauffman, who averaged 4.3 points per game the previous year with the Chicago Bulls, led Buffalo in scoring with 20.4 points per game and earned a spot on the 1971 NBA Eastern Conference All-Star team.

1971–72 season
The Braves repeated their 22–60 record in the 1971–72 season, but did make good acquisitions that would make the club better. Buffalo drafted center Elmore Smith from Kentucky State University and local favorite Randy Smith from Buffalo State College. Johnny McCarthy replaced Schayes one game into the season as the team's head coach.

1972–73 and 1973–74 seasons
The team did slightly worse in the 1972–73 season, as it went 21–61 under new head coach Dr. Jack Ramsay. In a showcase of the futility of the '72-'73 Braves, during the team's fifth game of the season on October 20, 1972 the team set an NBA record which still stands for most points in a single quarter with 58 in the fourth quarter against the Boston Celtics. However the Celtics were in the process of a blowout win and had already lead the Braves 103-60 at the start of the quarter. They had inserted their substitutes to play the final quarter and the reduced quality of the opponents allowed for the comeback. The Braves outscored the Celtics 58-23 but still lost 126-118. The Braves' big move that season was drafting forward/center Bob McAdoo from North Carolina. The team finally made its first playoff appearance in 1974, in which they faced the Celtics and lost in six games. That season, McAdoo posted averages of 30.6 points and 15.1 rebounds; this is the last time any player has averaged at least 30 points and 15 rebounds in the same NBA season. Also, that season, the Braves rookie Ernie DiGregorio won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.

1974–75 and 1975–76 seasons
In 1974–75, McAdoo was awarded the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, averaging 34.5 points, 14.1 rebounds. and 2.12 blocks per game, while shooting 51.2% from the field and 80.5% from the free-throw line. The Braves made trips to the playoffs in both 1974–75 and 1975–76, the latter of which would be their last playoff berth playing in Buffalo.

1976–77 season
The Braves by this point were a modest success, both on the court and off; the team was drawing close to the league average in fans, had solid broadcasting ratings and was turning a consistent profit. Even so, by 1976 Snyder was facing severe pressure to sell the team and get it out of Buffalo. As a result of the Braves only getting the third choice of dates at the Aud, the entire NBA was unable to finalize a schedule and hammer out television contracts until the Sabres and Griffins finalized their schedules. The NBA considered this untenable, and gave Snyder five years to resolve the problem. In a 2016 interview with The Buffalo News as part of a retrospective on the Braves, Snyder laid particular blame on Canisius president Father James Demske for making it difficult to get good home dates at the Aud. Snyder recalled offering Demske $125,000 per game to give up some Saturday night dates to the Braves. However, Demske turned the offer down, believing that the Braves posed a threat to the Little Three rivalry in college basketball. When the five-year deadline expired without a resolution, Snyder found himself with two options–build a new arena or sell the team. Building a new arena wasn't financially realistic at the time, leaving Snyder with no option but to sell the team. Had the dispute been resolved, the Braves would have likely been able to stay in Buffalo, especially since Canisius basketball went into what would be permanent decline in the early 1980s.

At the time, Snyder's more public feuds were with the Sabres, whose owners, Northrup and Seymour Knox, represented Buffalo's old money circuit while Snyder had nouveau riche status. Years later, Snyder attributed these feuds to his own inexperience with sports ownership and now speaks in more conciliatory tones regarding his hockey competition.

The June 15, 1976 issue of Buffalo's Courier-Express blasted the headline "Braves Go to Florida, Leaving 'Hockey Town'". Snyder had a handshake deal to sell the team for $6.1 million to hotel owner Irving Cowan, who would move the Braves to the Hollywood Sportatorium outside of Miami. However, the city of Buffalo filed a $10 million damage suit to block the move. The sale eventually fell through and the Braves and the city signed a new 15-year Memorial Auditorium lease in July with a provision that the lease could be voided if the team did not sell 5,000 season tickets in any season. Later that summer, Snyder finally sold 50% of the franchise to businessman John Y. Brown Jr., who had previously owned the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Brown later acquired the remaining half from Snyder sometime in the 1976–77 season and resold that share to another businessman, Harry T. Mangurian Jr.

Brown and Mangurian proceeded to dismantle the Braves. Ramsay, unwilling to have his career hurt by the change in ownership, left for the Portland Trail Blazers, who would win the NBA championship in the upcoming 1976–77 season. A provision in the team sale agreement stipulated that if Brown sold the contract of any Braves player, then the money would go to Snyder and the purchase price would be reduced. This subsequently occurred when the Braves sent McAdoo to the New York Knicks for players and cash midway through the season. Before the first game of the season, the Braves also managed to acquire eventual Hall-of-Fame center Moses Malone from Portland. However, after just two games in which he played a total of six minutes, he too was traded; he was sent to Houston for two draft picks. He would finish the season in Houston averaging 13 points and 13 rebounds while only two years later winning his first of three MVP Awards. The Braves would go through four head coaches in the next two seasons: Tates Locke, Bob MacKinnon, Joe Mullaney (formerly coach of the Colonels) and Cotton Fitzsimmons.

1977–78 season
The team's poor play in its final two years (30–52 in 1976–77 and 27–55 in 1977–78) and the overt attempts to break the lease on Memorial Auditorium drove attendance down below the threshold that would have been needed to break the lease. John Y. Brown met with Irv Levin, who then owned the Celtics, and negotiated a deal in which the owners would swap franchises, with Brown taking control of the Celtics and Levin getting the Braves. Levin was a California businessman, and wanted to own an NBA team in his native state. However, he knew the NBA would not even consider letting him move the Celtics. He was therefore very receptive to Brown's offer. The deal was brokered by then NBA general counsel David Stern, who became the league's commissioner in 1984. Following what would be the Braves' final season in Western New York, the NBA owners voted 21–1 to let the team move. As Levin wanted, he became owner of a team in San Diego after the 1977–78 season, which became the San Diego (now Los Angeles) Clippers. As part of the transaction, the teams traded most of the players on their rosters.

Team colors
For the franchise's first season (1970–71) team colors were blue, red & gold; home white uniforms featured lettering and striping in only red & gold, with road uniforms being blue, also with red & gold lettering and striping. In the second season, (1971–72) the team adopted the colors of the Baltimore Orioles. This was with the heavy influence of the local uniform supplier, James (Jim) Ludtka. Ludtka, was a former pro baseball player with the New York Yankees and was scouting for the Orioles organization. The new color scheme was white, orange and black, with the now familiar "feather B" logo featured on uniforms that had diagonal stripes across both jerseys and shorts (predominant color on the road being orange). This scheme was kept one more season (1972–73) and, with the 1973–74 season, the team adopted another new color scheme of Columbia blue and white, with uniforms including black accents outlining the lettering and also striping on jerseys and shorts; they continued with these uniforms until the team was moved to California. (Despite the new color scheme, the logo – which no longer appeared on the uniforms – remained the black and orange "feather B").

Clippers acknowledgement and naming issues
Since Steve Ballmer bought the team, the history of the Braves have been acknowledged through occasional throwback uniforms during Clipper games and Buffalo throwback merchandise being made available through team venues, though any explicit Native American references outside the city name, the Braves name itself, and "feather B" logo have been de-emphasized, with the original "feather sunburst" logo remaining unused. The team's name, said at the time to be a tribute to the Seneca Nation of New York, came well before the controversy of Native American names in sports beginning in the 1990s came to light, and the Braves nickname has been said to have been a "curse" upon the franchise from the start. The Clippers refused to relinquish the Braves trademark in 2005 when an expansion American Basketball Association franchise wanted to use it, so that team instead became the Buffalo Rapids.

Individual awards
NBA Most Valuable Player Award
 * Bob McAdoo – 1975

NBA Rookie of the Year
 * Bob McAdoo – 1973
 * Ernie DiGregorio – 1974
 * Adrian Dantley – 1977

NBA Executive of the Year
 * Eddie Donovan – 1974

All-NBA First Team
 * Bob McAdoo – 1975

All-NBA Second Team
 * Bob McAdoo – 1974
 * Randy Smith – 1976

NBA All-Rookie First Team
 * Elmore Smith – 1972
 * Bob McAdoo – 1973
 * Ernie DiGregorio – 1974
 * John Shumate – 1976
 * Adrian Dantley – 1977

NBA All-Star Weekend
NBA All-Star selections
 * Bob Kauffman – 1971, 1972, 1973
 * Bob McAdoo – 1974, 1975, 1976
 * Randy Smith – 1976, 1978

NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player
 * Randy Smith – 1978

Broadcasting
For most of the team's existence, WBEN (930 AM) was the radio home of the Buffalo Braves, with Van Miller on play-by-play. Miller also called play-by-play on the team's telecasts over WBEN-TV (channel 4, now WIVB-TV), the local CBS television affiliate. Snyder claimed that the Braves broadcasts were drawing far higher ratings than the Sabres at the time and insisted that if he had managed to keep the Braves in Buffalo, the Sabres would have been the team eventually forced to move out of the city.

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AfD nomination of Proton International
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Boffin (disambiguation)

Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist. It may also refer to:

 * Boffins, an Australian children's television series.
 * Boffin (computer game), computer platform game for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro systems
 * Boffin, nickname given by the Royal Navy during World War II to the Mark V mountings for the Oerlikon 20 mm cannons up-gunned with the Bofors 40 mm gun
 * Boffin, variant spelling of the Welsh family name Baughan

People:
 * Danny Boffin, Belgian former football player
 * Ruud Boffin, Belgian goalkeeper, currently playing for West Ham United
 * Henri M. J. Boffin, Belgian astronomer

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User talk:Alotot

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nigeria.mooo.com spam
Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy with other things. Try suggesting the adresses nigeria.mooo.com and lagospicture.mooo.com and any others being spammed at m:Talk:Spam blacklist. It shouldn't be too difficult to provide ten diffs. I have found that asking some admins over there to act on your request works best (otherwise you might end up waiting a few weeks). Kind regards, — mark ✎ 13:19, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's a recent one: . Given the precedent of threats and so on, I gave this one an indefinite block too. — mark ✎ 11:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

See here for the request I submitted to Meta. I hope they'll fix it soon. — mark ✎ 07:22, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, you might want to know that I went on a blocking spree and jailed all the sockpuppets to prevent more of this. Let me know when they reincarnate, if they do. — mark ✎ 09:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * And we're clean (although there seems to be a delay in updating, otherwise I couldn't have made such a beautiful section heading). Kind regards, — mark ✎ 16:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, it works! — mark ✎ 20:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

spam, second chapter
See meta:Talk:Spam_blacklist over at meta. If you feel like adding some diffs, by all means do. I've blocked Smiths Kelvin, whom you added to Amy333's league. — mark ✎ 07:26, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Nigeria
I have recently set up a Federal ministers of Nigeria and Federal Ministries of Nigeria, I encourage your participation. thanks.-- (Neutrall 20:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC))

Fellow Nigerians
Just sayin hi to all the fellow Nigerians on here :-)Deananoby2 21:48, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Gnaa, Nigeria
If you get the chance, can you look at Articles for deletion/Gnaa, Nigeria (2nd nomination). --A. B. 22:19, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The second AfD closed but now the article Gnaa, Nigeria has just entered its 3rd AfD. There's been considerable debate in the past as to:
 * Does such a place even exist?
 * If a place does exist with that name, is it notable?
 * Is this all a hoax perpetrated by the other GNAA, the Gay Niggers Association of America; they issue press releases datelined Gnaa, Nigeria.

 * If you get the chance, can you maybe take a look and render an opinion pro or con? Thanks, --A. B. 00:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Requested Yoruba translation
Hi Day-Gee. Since the Yoruba Wikipedia doesn't seem to have any babel templates, and you're currently the only one on the English Wikipedia who is in Category:User yo-N, I figured you'd be the best person to ask about this: would you be able to translate User yo-1, User yo-2, and User yo into Yoruba and change the templates accordingly, so as to fit with the rest of the babel system? You yourself created the second and third, but all three are in English, while the templates are supposed to be in the native language. Picaroon 21:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Help needed at Yoruba Wikipedia
Hi. I see that you're a native speaker of Yoruba. Can you got over to Wikipedia's Yoruba page and see if you can create and translate texts (in and to Yoruba)?

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(The links of articles that need to be created are colored in red, of course.)

Also help out in adding texts for these articles, or expand them:

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 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%BAs%C3%A1l%E1%BA%B9%CC%81m%C3%B9
 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1n%C3%A1d%C3%A0
 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olus%E1%BA%B9gun_%E1%BB%8Cbasanj%E1%BB%8D
 * http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or%C3%ADl%E1%BA%B9%CC%80-%C3%88d%C3%A8_Am%E1%BA%B9%CC%81r%C3%ADk%C3%A0

See you around. - Qasamaan 09:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Kurów
Could you please write a stub http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2-5 sentences enough. Please.

PS. Article about Kurów is already on 133 languages. If you do that, please put interwiki link into English version. Pietras1988 20:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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Atheism
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User talk:Chaoil

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User talk:Nbdy

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User talk:Erekrose

juuu O_. Jerec 17:04, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You smell like poodoo. Espantajo 22:17, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Why did I get a notice from someone asking me to not vandalize this page? Damn you, they can't tell nonsense when they see it apparently. I was just trying to take off the damn white-on-white table you added. Whatever. :P Espantajo 10:20, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

I dunno, but I got rid of most of the ASCII. It was just too much. People can look at the history if they wanna see it. Erekrose 19:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council

The Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council (Bureau du Premier ministre et du Conseil privé) building, formerly known as the Langevin Block (Édifice Langevin, ), is an office building facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. As the home of the Privy Council Office and Office of the Prime Minister, it is the working headquarters of the executive branch of the Canadian government.

The term Langevin Block was previously used as a metonym for the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office. The building was named after Father of Confederation and cabinet minister Hector-Louis Langevin. Recognizing Langevin's role in establishing the residential school system, associated with the abuse of Indigenous children and attempts to forcibly assimilate them, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the renaming of the building on June 21, 2017.

The building is a National Historic Site of Canada.

Description

It is built of sandstone obtained from a New Brunswick quarry owned by Charles Elijah Fish. It occupies a prominent place on Ottawa's Wellington Street, adjacent to the National War Memorial, Chateau Laurier, Government Conference Centre, Rideau Canal, National Arts Centre, High Commission of the United Kingdom in Ottawa, and the Sparks Street Mall.

The structure is distinctive in Ottawa for its Second Empire Style design because most government buildings from the period were built in the Gothic Revival style. It was designed by the Chief Dominion Architect Thomas Fuller, who also designed the original Parliament Buildings. In 2000, it was named by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium. The building is connected by a bridge to an office building at 13 Metcalfe Street.

While the offices of senior Privy Council Office officials remain in the building, its use is now largely limited to the Prime Minister's Office, in addition to his or her office in the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings. The Prime Minister of Canada has two office rooms.

History
Started in 1883 and completed in 1889, the building was the first federal government office building constructed outside the Parliament Hill precinct. Originally named the Southwest Departmental Building during construction, its name from completion until 2017 came from Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, the Public Works Minister in the Cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald.

The building was first used by the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Indian Affairs and the Post Office. It was used by the Department of Indian Affairs until 1965. The building was renovated between 1975 and 1977 and has been used since by the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council.

In 1977, it was designated a National Historic Site. This was to recognize Fuller's work, its example as a Department of Public Works architecture, and its Second Empire style.

In 2017, the Assembly of First Nations called for the building to be renamed, largely based on Langevin's role in the creation of Canada's controversial Indian residential schools system. On June 21, 2017 the building was renamed the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council.


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Mr. John J. McCloy
It should/must be mentioned that Oberheuser had her life sentence commuted by Mr. John J. McCloy, when he was the U.S. High Commissioner of Allied-occupied Germany. - 26/10/13

sentence
the sentence was "She would kill jewish children and take out vital organs and put saw dust and crushed glass inside the wounds while they were still alive."

If she killed them, then how could she put things in their wounds while they were still alive? I re-arranged the sentence. But I don't know if I have it exactly right. Kingturtle 01:51, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

I removed the part about the Nuremberg trials in general because the information is a) already at Doctors' Trial and b) was copy(vio)ed verbatim from the linked website. regards, High on a tree 19:48, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have removed 2 sentences from the previous article about livers being removed from Jewsh children, which are not substantiated by any existing documents related to Herta Oberheuser. I have added the sentence about 86 victimes of the medical experiments in which Dr. Oberheuser actively participated. --fitzner 18:08, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)Fitzner

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Dr. Herta Oberheuser killed children with oil and evipan injections, then removed their limbs and vital organs. The time from the injection to death was between three and five minutes, with the person being fully conscious until the last moment.

She made some of the most gruesome and painful medical experiments during World War II, focused on deliberately inflicting wounds on the subjects. In order to simulate the combat wounds of German soldiers fighting in the war, Herta Oberheuser rubbed foreign objects, such as wood, rusty nails, slivers of glass, dirt or sawdust into the wounds.

appears to be copied from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/hober.html. Might this be a copyright problem?

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Copyright problem II
About 90% of the article is a word for word copy of the relevant portion of this 2009 article from The Daily Mail. signing Herzlicheboy (talk) 01:43, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Evipan
It is a barbiturate so death by it would not have been painful. Not excusing or ignoring other methods of murder but in the interest of accuracy, I mention this.--Jrm2007 (talk) 19:19, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

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Squalidae

Squalidae, more commonly known as dogfish, dog sharks, or spiny dogfish, are one of several families of sharks categorized under Squaliformes, making it the second largest order of sharks, numbering 119 species across 7 families. Having earned their name after a group of fishermen reportedly observed the species chasing down smaller fish in dog-like packs, dogfish have slender, streamlined bodies, usually more compact in comparison to other species, and a pointed snout. Dogfish likewise have two dorsal fins, each with smooth spines, but no anal fin, and their skin is generally rough to the touch. As the species reaches adulthood, males usually measure a maximum of 39 in, while females typically measure 49 in long. The species therefore exhibits female-dominant sexual dimorphism.

Dogfish sharks have slate-grey or grey-brown skin with white dots that becomes paler (almost white) around the belly region. These sharks are characterized by teeth in upper and lower jaws similar in size; a caudal peduncle with lateral keels; the upper precaudal pit usually is present; and the caudal fin is without a subterminal notch.

They are carnivorous, principally preying upon organisms smaller than themselves. Some of their prey include herring, mackerel, and capelin. In special cases, they may consume jellyfish and squid. Even at a young age, spiny dogfish pups may hunt fish two or three times their size. Unlike virtually all other shark species, dogfish sharks possess venom which coats their dorsal spines; this venom is mildly toxic to humans and would be harmful if the shark were to be mishandled. The livers and stomachs of the Squalidae contain the compound squalamine, which possesses the property of reduction of small blood vessel growth in humans. Dogfish sharks use their strong jaw and sharp teeth to consume their prey.

The spiny dogfish has broken several records in the areas of migration and gestation. This shark tends to be a highly migratory species: one shark was recorded as travelling 5000 mi after being tagged in Washington state, United States, and found again later in Japan. In addition to its long distance migration, the spiny shark holds the record for longest gestation period of any other vertebrate at 22–24 months. Females produce eggs and give birth to live young that measure to be 20-33 cm.

Taxonomy
Dogfish are scientifically classified as the Squalidae family, categorized under the Squaliform order, which encompasses seven families in total, including Squalidae. The Squalidae family itself contains two separate genera: Cirrhigaleus and Squalus, numbering 37 species between the two. Some extinct genera such as Protosqualus have been documented.

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