The Deep Sea Is Chimaera Country
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By , on March 20th, 2010 2 comments   Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies   , , , ,  

Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
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By , on September 27th, 2009 16 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species   , , , , , , , , , ,  

The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma), a new species from California and Baja California, not taunting other marine life with its retractable forehead genitalia. Credit: MBARI Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins.  They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400 mya.  They are . . . → Read More: Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs

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