#chimaeras — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chimaeras, aggregated by home.social.
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2-Oct-2025
#Sharks, #rays, #chimaeras further threatened by #deepSeaMining -
#NewSpecies of #GhostShark with unusually long nose discovered in deep seas off #NewZealand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/ghost-shark-new-species-spookfish-discovered-new-zealand
Harriotta avia sp. nov. – a new rhinochimaerid described from the Southwest Pacific: Brittany Finucci et al. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-024-01577-4
“#Chimaeras are quite cryptic in nature – they can be hard to find in the #DeepSea… and they generally don’t get the same attention #sharks do, when it comes to research.”
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#Carboniferous-Period #Chimaeras Were Suction Feeders
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/carboniferous-period-chimaeras-11575.htmlEvidence for high-performance suction feeding in the Pennsylvanian stem-group holocephalan Iniopera https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207854119
In their early evolutionary history, some chimaeras were inhabiting ecological niches that are now monopolized by ray finned #fishes — a far cry from their modern life as specialized shell-crushers.
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Curtin University researchers have revealed how the #pelvic #fins of fish such as #sharks and #chimaeras have #evolved from their sudden appearance in the fossil record over 410 million years ago.
#MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/mb12152201.html