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Lost shark seen for first time in a decade - in a fish market

By Joshua Rapp Learn

13 April 2018

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Hopefully there are others out there still

Evan Nazareth

The Ganges river shark is so rare that there has been no confirmed record of the species for a decade – and very few ever. But a series of photographs taken at a fish market in Mumbai, India, show the species is still around, and in a unexpected place.

“It’s a species that’s never really been seen in the western Indian Ocean,” says , founder and lead scientist of the – a shark research and conservation organisation – in the United Arabic Emirates.

A student of hers, Evan…

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