and you thought fish were fun!
photograph National Institute Of Water and Atmospheric Research via AFP
- Getty Images, well this looks like fun, it has never been seen before, found on the ocean floor up to 2,600 meters (8,530 feet) deep,
feeding on crustaceans such as shrimp and molluscs it is a newly discovered
species of ghost shark, known as a spookfish, it has a Latin name, Harriotta
avia, given to it by Brit Finucci, a fisheries scientist at the National
Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, in memory of her grandmother, "Ghost
sharks always surprise me!" Finucci told NBC News on Tuesday. "It
just goes to show how little we know about our oceans, particularly the deep sea."
the newly discovered new species of ghost shark lives exclusively in the waters off Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was
found during research surveys in the Chatham Rise, an area of ocean floor
east of New Zealand, according to the National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research, based in Auckland, for the full article have a look here.
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