Posted on 11/08/2013 11:27:01 AM PST by don-o
When new species are found near populated areas, they are often small and inconspicuous, not, for example, a hammerhead shark.
But that's exactly what a team of researchers discovered along the coast of South Carolina. The new species looks virtually identical to the scalloped hammerhead, but is genetically distinct, and contains about 10 fewer vertebrae, or segments of backbone, new research shows.
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Less backbone? It’s a GOPe hammerhead.
Less backbone? It’s a GOPe hammerhead.
LOL classic.
We should name it Grahamerhead!
Grahamerhead!!! I like it!
In more shark news, a new species of “walking shark” was discovered near a remote Indonesian island in August.
http://m.livescience.com/39331-new-walking-shark-species.html
Knock knock.
Candygram ....
LOL.
Thanks.
Awesome picture. Looks like George Burns at Mardi Gras.
It DOES!!
Lol.
He’ll be Grahamerhead from now on to me!!
The new species looks virtually identical to the scalloped hammerhead, but is genetically distinct, and contains about 10 fewer vertebrae, or segments of backbone, new research shows.
Is her father a crab?
The SyFy channel camera crew will be right down.
“...contains about 10 fewer vertebrae, or segments of backbone, new research shows.”
Ok. I’ll play the “biology-police” this morning.
Sharks have cartilage, not bones.
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