A Little More than a Hand Long, with a Bulbous Snout and a Life in the Dark at 500 Meters Deep: Discovered a New Lantern Shark
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It is just over twenty centimeters long, lives at hundreds of meters of depth and has a muzzle so particular that it has given it its name. It is called Etmopterus bulbosus and is a new species of lantern shark described in 2026 after the discovery of a specimen off the Mauritius, in the south-western Indian Ocean. The study [...] The article Long little more than one hand, with the bulbous snout and a life in the dark at 500 meters of depth: di…
This particular specimen, which is truly terrifying, was discovered during a trawl fishing operation in the deep waters of the southwestern Indian Ocean.
A new species of shark has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Mauritius, after examining a specimen recovered from a depth of between 400 and 500 meters. More...
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