@mbari_news: Your friendly neighborhood ghostshark reporting for duty 👻🦈⁠ ⁠ Ghostshark is a common name for a chimaera, a group of unusual fish which, despite the common name, isn't a shark at all! Their closest living relatives are sharks, and about 400 million years ago, they branched off the evolutionary tree from sharks, remaining isolated ever since. ⠀⠀⁠ ⁠ This unique species, Harriotta raleighana, commonly known as the longnose chimaera (for obvious reasons 😉) was spotted 2,241 meters (7,352 feet) deep during a Gulf of California expedition—a rare treat for our researchers to see! ⁠#chimaera #deepsea #deepocean #ocean #oceanlife #marinebiology #swim

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Thursday 14 March 2024 19:48:18 GMT