Kristin Walovich
Moss Landing, California
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Pacific Shark Research Center
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Ghost Shark Sneak-peek
As a special thank you the backers of our project, I’d like to present a sneak-peek of our new species of Ghost Shark.This is the second larges species of Ghost Shark ever recorded, measuring nearl...
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
Data data data! Over the course of my Master's thesis I've visited many museums and collected nearly 12,500 individual ghost shark measurements....Now what? Since the smelly part of ...
South African Museum Adventures
Last year fellow graduate student Paul Clerkin and I traveled to South Africa to search for new ghost shark species. The South African Museum in Cape Town houses an extensive scientific collection ...
Exploring the deep-sea for Ghost Sharks
The majority of Ghost shark species inhabit of the deepest parts of the ocean. Our new species of Ghost shark was collected during research expeditions near remote seamounts throughout the southern...
So what is a Ghost Shark?
Ghost Sharks, also known as chimaeras or rabbitfish, are unique group of fish that are related to sharks and rays because of their cartilage skeleton, but look quite different. They...