Half shark, half chainsaw

• Autores: Lesley Evans Ogden
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3021, 2015, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It was an afternoon in January, during a break in the weather, when a Florida State University research vessel headed out towards the Queen of Nassau shipwreck off the Keys. There had been sightings of smalltooth sawfishes in the area and ecologist Dean Grubbs was keen to investigate. Resembling a chainsaw with a shark-like body, sawfishes are extremely rare. With luck, Grubbs might catch one or two for tagging arid study. It never occurred to him that he would soon have six snagged in a single line. That was when things started to get tricky. Here, Ogen examines whether Grubss and colleagues can get to know the world's weirdest fish before it goes under.