"Rapier Wielding" Shark Among New Species Found in 2011
Anybody want to never sleep again?
Four new sharks—including a “rapier wielding” sawshark—are among 140 new species discovered by California Academy of Sciences researchers in 2011, the institution announced in December.
The African dwarf sawshark (Pristiophorus nancyae) was accidentally captured in a 1,600-foot-deep (490-meter-deep) trawl off Mozambique. The animal is only the seventh species of sawshark known to science, according to David Ebert, a research associate at the Academy.
The predator has a long, tooth-studded snout that it uses like a sword, whipping the appendage through schools of fish and then returning to eat any casualties.
To clarify: There are sharks that have ***serrated face swords.***
The ocean is the worst.
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O hai, nightmare fuel.
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Australia is so pissed off that these sharks were not found off their shores, seeing as seemingly all of the animals...
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What the fuuuuuck? Sharks own so hard. Thank God they can’t walk around yet or we’d all be dead.
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footagenotfound said:
Gotta nuke something.
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