Carolina Hammerhead Sharks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131107170959.htm / November 7, 2013 by the University of Carolina
The University of Carolina have discovered a new rare species of hammerhead sharks. The ichthyologist Joe Quattro led his team to clear the bases and in his journal, he described in his journal a new outwardly indistinguishable shark not common to the scalloped hammerhead shark. Quattro was a biology professor at USC's College of Arts and Science. Quattro grew up in Maryland and earned his doctorate degree at Rutgers University in New York. He focused mainly on river waters and then moved his way to the sea. He knew that South Carolina was a well known pupping ground for several species of sharks. Him and his colleagues collected two hammerhead sharks and discovered an anomaly, the two samples of hammerhead sharks had two different genetic signatures. He has also found locations and genetic signatures for a number of closely related species of sharks. The carolina hammerhead shark was considered a cryptic specie and he noticed that the regular hammerhead had fewer vertabrae than the cryptic species.
I chose this article because it fascinated me that there are new species being discovered in the sea. It caught my attention because i always wondered what sharks would become later in life. Do they adapt to new climate and what adaptations do they have? So when i saw this, i wanted to know more about this. This can help us in the future by letting us know more about our oceans and whats been going on in the depths of the oceans.
I chose this article because it fascinated me that there are new species being discovered in the sea. It caught my attention because i always wondered what sharks would become later in life. Do they adapt to new climate and what adaptations do they have? So when i saw this, i wanted to know more about this. This can help us in the future by letting us know more about our oceans and whats been going on in the depths of the oceans.