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Off the coast of Portugal caught prehistoric shark

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A group of scientists working off the coast of one of the regions of Portugal, the Algarve, and studied commercial fishing, noticed an unusual shark, reports BBC. Finding, in fact, is a "living fossil" because its ancestors inhabited the Earth 80 million years ago (when the dinosaurs).

The Portuguese Institute of sea and atmosphere reported that the length of the sharks — 1.5 meters, the fish was caught at a depth of 700 meters, and it has 300 teeth. The animal's body long, snake-like. On biological characteristics of the species is not known to many, as these fish live at great depths — more than a kilometer. Among the known habitats of the "old-timers" — the coast of Australia, Japan and New Zealand.

The species name is Chlamydoselachus anguineus.

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