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Eucrossorhinus dasypogon This unusual carpet shark has a fringe along the front of its flat head, and an elaborate camouflage pattern, ideal for its ambush style of hunting. It usually grows to about 4 feet long, with broad, rounded pectoral fins, and a series of lobed fins back to its asymmetric
found in the western Pacific Ocean off eastern Indonesia (Waigeo, Aru), Papua New Guinea

Tetronarce nobiliana This large ray has an oval pectoral disc, two lobed dorsal fins on its stout tail, and a large caudal (tail) fin, all dark gray-brown on top and light underneath. Kidney-shaped electric organs on either side of its head are barely visible in the pectoral fins, but can deliver
It also lives from Cap Blanc in Mauritania to the Gulf of Guinea, São Tomé Island

Imagine walking into a towering cathedral draped with million-faceted curtains of orange-gold and black, shimmering in the morning sunlight. Then these incredible living tapestries take flight, with a soft rustle from countless wings sweeping the air and billions of tiny butterfly scales drifting do
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In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an unexpected link between Caribbean bird life and the Old World. Like many animals unique to the Caribbean,
the flufftails, flying birds that live in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and New Guinea

Mitsukurina owstoni Not a great deal is known about this rare shark. Living in the deep ocean, the goblin shark catches prey by quickly projecting its jaw forward. This feature and its large extended snout prompted its fearsome name. Order – Lamniformes Family – Mitsukurinidae Genus – Mi
of Guyana, Surinam, French Guyana, France, Madeira, Senegal, Portugal, Gulf of Guinea

Katsuwonus pelamis These strong, torpedo-shaped fish are built for speed and agility, with extra finlets and keels, and a forked caudal (tail) fin on a narrow caudal peduncle. Averaging 32 inches long, and 22 pounds, this tuna is a dark blue or purple on top, fading to silver below, and has sever
Major fisheries are based out of Japan, the USA, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the

Amphiprion percula These small reef fish spend a great deal of their lives in a symbiotic relationship with a specific anemone, often with a mate and several non-breeding fish. They are protandrous hermaphrodites, which means all fish are males except for the largest of the group, which is female
ranges from Northern Queensland, Australia to Melanesia, including New Britain, New Guinea

Carcharhinus isodon This small slender shark gets its name from its rows of small, fine, clear teeth. This social shark forms schools to hunt fish like menhaden and mullet, sometimes energetically chasing them into the beach surf (Castro, 1993). Order – Carcharhiniformes Family – Carcharhinid
reports of this shark in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, in particular in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn’t look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, a pronounced strut in their walk typical of most other doves. You’d be forgiven for overlooking it in favor of Cuba’s prismatic parrots. But looks aren’t everything. For decades, this u
€” albeit extinct — Caribbean bird whose closest relatives are in Africa, New Guinea

The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love of freshwater mussels. Mathematics, maize, pyramids and human sacrifice, yes. But bivalves? Not so much. Yet Florida Museum of Natural History archaeologists Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery could not sift through a single bag of material fr
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