Detecting sharks 'ghosts' at the bottom of the sea

In a two-month discovery in India, scientists discovered hundreds of exotic sharks, some of which were first known.

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Shark researcher Paul Clerkin, of Moss Landing Ocean Laboratory in California, has discovered at least eight new shark species, during an expedition with a commercial fishing vessel in the Indian Sea. Ocean Ocean in April last.

One of the "ghost" sharks has a moon and rabbit teeth.

Paul Clerkin and his fleet used a fishing net below a depth of about 2,000 meters compared to the sea in the waters off the southern island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Paul Clerkin hoped to catch many deep-sea sharks and he was not disappointed.

"I told people that I caught 1 ton of sharks, but they all thought I was joking," Paul Clerkin said on Live Science. 'In fact, I caught 350 sharks with a weight of about 1 ton'.

Many species of deep-sea marine sharks are of a strange shape, such as sharp points such as knives, round eyes or curved spines with serrated shapes, even some extremely rare species that have never been known by scientists so far.

'They are not like the big white shark you often see in Paul Clerkin magazine. I think they look much more interesting with a strange shape like a sharp tip like a knife, round eyes like a moon or a very special jagged spine shark , 'Clerkin said.

Researcher Paul Clerkin measured about 80 to 90 different indicators for each captured shark. In addition, he also took gene samples to compare to identify new sharks. If a new species was discovered he proceeded to name them.