“This is a very nice and a very good way to gain information on these hard-to-study animals,” says Nicolas Straube, a shark biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. David Ebert, who studies sharks at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, agrees, saying that deep-sea sharks often fail to get the same attention as their more deadly relatives, such as great white sharks. But a growing body of research suggests that these overlooked sharks may be just as interesting, he adds—and possibly more eerie, too.
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