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March 12, 2019 by J. Scott Butherus

New species of lantern shark discovered

Nearly three decades after it was first found, a specimen of deep-water, bioluminescent shark has been named a distinct species. University of Rhode Island shark researcher Bradley Wetherbee, who was among the researchers that originally studied the specimens that were inadvertently caught in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 1988, named the new species Etmopterus lailae […]

Filed Under: Biology, Science Tagged With: lantern

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