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Lost species of Chilean angel shark resurfaces after more than a century - Times of India

NEW DELHI: Artisanal fishermen while hunting for bony fish off the Chilean coast, accidentally caught a species presumed lost, later identified as a fish described back in the 1880s. Originally documented in 1887, the Chilean angel shark bears resemblance to a small, flat shark akin to a ray and is typically found in shallow coastal waters.However, a recent study, published in the European…

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(Jonathan Bird's Blue World)  Bottom-Dwelling Sharks

When most people think of a shark, they think of an animal like the Great White or a reef shark. But there are hundreds of small, bottom-dwelling sharks like the Wobbegong that blend in to the bottom to hunt as ambush predators, or simply spend most of their time resting on the bottom. Jonathan travels from Australia to Indonesia looking at interesting sharks that don't look like sharks!