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Sharp Decline in Basking Shark Sightings in California miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
About the size of a small school bus, the basking shark is the second largest fish in the ocean and is found in temperate and tropical waters across the globe. In the mid-1900s, basking sharks were observed by the thousands each year off California’s coast. Now they are rarely seen at all in this region, called the California Current Ecosystem, or CCE.
New research hopes to shine a light on wedgefish, the 'pangolin of the ocean' mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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New Shark Species Discovered In Indian Ocean; Details Inside
Researchers from Pacific Shark Research Center in US conducted studies along Southwest Indian Ridge that runs between Africa & Antarctica, in 2012 and 2014
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Researchers from the Pacific Shark Research Center in the United States conducted studies along the Southwest Indian Ridge, an underwater mountain range that runs between Africa and Antarctica, in 2012 and 2014. The team gathered eight deep-sea sharks while studying the seamounts off the coast of Madagascar and began in-depth study.
New shark species in the Indian Ocean
Amazing that we are still discovering new species of shark in 2021! This new (sorry, ugly) one was discovered in deep sea mounts in the southwestern Indian Ocean. #SharkWeekhttps://t.co/ugV4ZWfZ7Xpic.twitter.com/ZjT5sF3odD