Oh, me too. I thought it was facing the other way, like the pointy part on the right side was its nose or something. :P
Oh no... Childhood ruined. Wait, I think I realized before that it actually has 2 "noses" and thus they are more like limbs than noses haha. But I still have a hard time seeing that side of it as the front. Really didn't look like it in the anime.
It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).
To be honest: I wish I'd never realized, because it makes him from being kinda cool to not so much anymore.
Yeah, why did they even do that xD It's not like it makes it look better or more imposing or give it an easier time moving around on land or anything. If anything, they should have done that instead, kind of like Dewgong actually could crawl around on land if it wanted to.