Nature never ceases to amaze us and as much as man has tried to decipher all its secrets, this seems an impossible task, because every time scientists are close to giving a logical interpretation to a phenomenon or animal behavior, new events are discovered. and species that generate new doubts and paradigms.
What has been intuited so far with the help of the scientific method is that an endless cycle takes place, where species become extinct due to changes generated in the environment, giving way to those that managed to survive, through evolutionary adaptability and propitiating the emergence of new life forms.
The human being has shown great interest in trying to understand the biotic and abiotic interactions that take place at all levels, with which we share time and space. Task that has been developed since the existence of man on the planet.
With the known information, alternatives are sought that allow the survival of the species, while guaranteeing that of man himself. However, the fast pace of life, the exploitation of natural resources to meet the high demand of the population, has generated excessive pollution, negatively impacting all ecosystems and promoting the acceleration of climate change.
Thanks to these actions, entire communities of different species have reached their drastic decline, even extinction.
But, just as thousands of species of which we were aware have disappeared, the truth is that the number of flora and fauna that continues to be discovered generates astonishment and interest among the scientific community.
Definitely, one of the places that remains unknown to the human being, due to its immensity and depth, are the oceans. The appearance of this specimen confirms how much we do not know about the environment where life is believed to have originated.
We will put as examples the discovery of a strange shark that was dragged to Australian coasts from deep waters. This animal, with a particular anatomy, has pronounced and protruding eyes, in addition to having a disturbing smile, very similar to that of humans.
Shark experts were quick to rule, unable to identify a known family to which the specimen may belong.
The way in which this animal was discovered was thanks to the fisherman Trapman Bermagui, being in charge of fishing this mysterious shark, in front of the things of New South Wales, Australia.
The fisherman shared the image of the animal in Facebook, in which you can sense the type of rough skin that covers the skeleton, surely cartilaginous, of this rare specimen. Users on social networks did not take long to be present, expressing comments of amazement and fear at the physical appearance of the shark.
“It’s a swallow shark,” he told Live Science in an email Brit Finucci, a fisheries scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research who specializes in deep-sea sharks. However, it is not clear exactly which species of this group it belongs to, he added.
However, the identification has generated a great debate in the guild, hoping soon it will be possible to clarify if it really is a new species or if the scientist Finucci is right.
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