New video has emerged of the otherworldly-like "ghost shark".
The video was recorded in 2009, but researchers at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Reserach Institute (MBARI) deliberated for seven years before releasing it, because they wanted to be double (or triple) certain that the creature was, in fact, a ghost shark, and that it was a particular kind of ghost shark that they describe as a "pointy-nosed blue chimaera".
Also known as
chimaeras, ghost sharks are related to sharks and rays. But unlike more "mainstream" sharks and rays, ghost sharks have tooth plates instead of teeth, and open channels on their heads and faces that give them the appearance of having been stitched together like a rag doll.
Most remarkably perhaps, ghost sharks have a retractable penis on their heads.The video was recorded at a depth of 2000 meters (6700 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, and not far from the coast of California, or Hawaii, or somewhere in between. The text of these news reports is not very clear about exactly where the video was recorded.
I want to see the ghost shark on video, and I have about a minute to burn. A 30-second advert followed by 30 seconds of content.
https://www.theguardian.com...m-for-the-first-timeI am so into ghost sharks that I want to engage a somewhat longer video of three minutes run time that comprises an even more informative presentation.
http://www.foxnews.com/scie...hark-goes-viral.htmlNo thanks, I want to return immediately to the main Off Topic display page.
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