Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Shark Discovered


The African dwarf sawshark one of the new sharks discovered in 2011 named (Pristiophorus nancyae). It was accidentally captured in a 1,600-foot-deep (490-meter-deep) trawl off Mozambique. The animal is only the seventh species of sawshark known to science. The predator has a long, tooth-studded snout that it uses like a sword, whipping the appendage through schools of fish and then returning to eat any casualties.

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