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sleeper shark

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In Prince William Sound, Alaska, Pacific sleeper sharks keep harbor seals from eating too many walleye pollock, wrote Dalhousie marine biology professor Boris Worm, the lead author of a recent paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, in an e-mail.
In the depths of the sea, strange creatures like gulper eels, needle-toothed fish, hatchet fish, viper fish, sleeper shark and the Pacific hag fish would do well to avoid a mirror.
Caloric content and HSI supported previous reports of buoyancy regulation and was most evident in the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus.
 
 
 
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