New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 12:56
in Biology & Nature
New species are not just discovered in exotic locales -- even places as urban as California still yield discoveries of new plants and animals. Academy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ancient and bizarre group of fishes distantly related to sharks, from the coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.