Smile! New Bucktoothed Ghost Shark Species Discovered
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | February 2, 2017 05:00pm ET
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Smile! New Bucktoothed Ghost Shark Species Discovered
Hydrolagus erithacus has rabbit-like teeth.
Credit: Kristin Walovich
A previously unknown ghost shark with rabbit-like teeth and a bulky head is making waves in record books; it's the 50th ghost shark species known to science, a new study reported.
At nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in length — about half as long as the height of a refrigerator — the newfound creature is the second largest species of ghost shark ever discovered, the researchers said.
"[Ghost fish] in general have a pretty big head and their body tapers to a thinner tail. This one was really chunky in the front, and just a big bulky specimen," said Kristin Walovich, a graduate student at the Pacific Shark Research Center at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, and the lead researcher of a new study. [See Photos of the Freakiest-Looking Fish]
http://www.livescience.com/57744-new-species-of-ghost-shark-found.html
