Scientist Finds 'Genetically Distinct' Shark

[Vitaliy]

Biology professor Dr. Joe Quattro, collaborating with Dr. Jim Grady at the University of New Orleans and Dr. Trey Driggers with the National Marine Fisheries Service, has discovered a genetically distinct species of the hammerhead shark. Classified under the genus, sphyrna, the species is the ninth recognized in the hammerhead family and will be called the "cryptic species" until a formal description is pronounced.

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[ewurm]

More sharks = good. Someone put that fish back in the water!

 

[BastardFish]

Cool artical!

 

[MarlboroMan]

Im sorry, that was one of the most boring artivles Ive ever read about sharks.

 

[sandtiger]

Im sorry, that was one of the most boring artivles Ive ever read about sharks.

Only interesting when they are talking about how they eat people right?

I thought it was interesting, I posted it on another forum a few days back but got very limited responces.

 

[davo]

it said jack all about how they were different, only in DNA. can someone fill that in for me

 

[sandtiger]

What do you want to know? They are genetically distinct, they are basically the same species as the scalloped hammerhead only this particular population has something different about it's DNA that makes it different from all the others.

 

[davo]

o its just that they said they could see something different (visually) about this shark, i just wondered what it was that you could see to make it look different

 

[sandtiger]

Really? I'm gonna have to re-read it, I must have missed that. I thought they looked exactly the same.

 

[davo]

dont worry, i just re-read it myself, and saw he had seen the difference in the genetic make up, not the physical characteristics of the shark. my bad. surely that means that theoretcicall there could be lots of different species of animal that look the same, but ate genetically different