LONDON: Scientists have discovered only the second-ever specimen of a creature known as the ‘pocket shark’, after it was found in a slab of fish thawed out after five years of storage.
The species was first discovered near the Nazca Ridge off Peru’s coast in 1984 when a larger female was caught.
Swelling observed on the shark suggests the shark was up to half-a-kilometre below the surface of the water when it was caught.
The Mollisquama gets its name from the mysterious gland above its pectoral fin which looks pocket-like, not its size.
Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States found the fish for the first time in the Gulf of Mexico, “establishing a considerable range extension,” an NOAA report published in Zootaxa found.
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