Adult Atlantic Sixgill (IMAGE)

Florida Institute of Technology

Adult Atlantic Sixgill

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An adult Atlantic sixgill shark swims off the coast of Belize. A team led by Florida Institute of Technology was able to confirm the Atlantic sixgill is a species different than sixgills living in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Photo courtesy of Ivy Baremore/MarAlliance

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