Comments on: The Eastern Pacific Black Ghost Shark

By: Verenice

Verenice — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:21:18 +0000

kool video

By: Edward Garcia

Edward Garcia — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:57:57 +0000

I love sharks so much that I have 20 pet sharks.

By: Discovering a New Species of Ghost Shark « The Drop-In to Moss Landing Marine Labs

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:02:06 +0000

[...] scientific journal Zootaxa, the story has created a lot of media buzz, garnering press time from the Smithsonian, Wired Science, National Geographic, and even a German website. Not bad for a class project! [...]

By: Roxy

Roxy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:39:34 +0000

I think it’s awesome that we are finding new species of sharks!!! These sharks look beautiful too… <3

I ♥ SHARKS!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:08:02 +0000

Nadine: I think specimens have been caught alive, but they’ve also bee filmed in the wild.

By: Nadine Rankin

Nadine Rankin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:40:35 +0000

Very, very cool! Were the specimens caught alive?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:56:31 +0000

Kathy: Good question. It is sort of shaped like a door knocker, or a sideway oriented pincer, and in most or maybe all species of ghost shark, fits into a corresponding hollow shaped area on the female.

Since these are very under-studied animals, there is probably a lot more to this story that we just don’t know yet.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:01:23 +0000

Just how does the tentaculum “facilitate copulation with the female”? A “grabby thing” doesn’t tell a lot….