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Because unlike other sharks, grey nurse sharks give live birth, other sharks lay water-proof sacks when nurse sharks have a placenta like other mammals. Seperating mammals from amphibians and repitles is if they gve live birth.

Actually all sharks are fish.

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Grey nurse sharks are classified as fish so, like all fish, they are vertebrates. They have a spine and spinal cord, and an internal skeleton. They belong to the Phylum Chordata.

Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians are all vertebrates.

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Whales and sharks are vertebrates because they have a backbone or spinal column. Invertebrates do not have a backbone.

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They both have a spinal cord protected by vertebrae. That is the key trait of all vertebrates. So whales and sharks are both vertebrates.

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a grey nurse is a nurse shark

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