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Cryptic New Species of Shark Identified: Atlantic Sixgill Shark

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Sci News

Publication Date
2018-02-22

The sixgill sharks of the genus Hexanchus are large, rarely encountered deep-sea sharks. With ancestors dating back over 250 million years, well before dinosaurs, they are among the oldest creatures on Earth.

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