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Cartilage is a bloodless gristle – the tough, elastic, whitish connective tissue found around bones in mammals just like that small flexible “bone” found at the end of your nose. Amazingly, sharks don’t have a single bone in their body. Their entire skeletal structure is made up of cartilage which is 6% to 8% of the total shark’s body weight.
