Image of the Day: Pocket Shark
Researchers sampling deep ocean waters off the Louisiana coast in 2010 found this five-and-a-half-inch-long pocket shark (Mollisquama sp.), which is named for a hole behind its pectoral fin and represents only the second known specimen of its genus.
TULANE UNIVERSITY, MICHAEL DOOSEY
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