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January 3, 2019 by J. Scott Butherus

Fossil record used to discover ‘lost shark’

A new species of whaler shark, Carcharhinus obsolerus, has been identified based on three specimens originally collected from the Western Central Pacific in the 1940s. William White, Peter Kyne and Mark Harris described their findings in the latest issue of the journal PLOS One. The researchers believe that this species might already be extinct, however, which is why they […]

Filed Under: Biology, News, Science Tagged With: whaler shark

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