World Ocean Day Edition
June 9, 2009
In honor of World Ocean Day (help here), here’s a video of a frilled shark that wandered into shallow waters near Japan in 2007. The frilled shark is a “living fossil”—it’s the only surviving species from the familyChlamydoselachidae and was thought to be extinct for a time.
The case of the frilled shark nicely illustrates two important points about our oceans. First, we’re pretty clueless about what they contain. And second, we’re screwing them up.
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