![]() And an example of a male chimaera’s sex organ on a forehead can be seen in Ray Troll’s painting shown above. They love to eat mollusks, worms and other bottom-dwelling creatures. The chimaera’s slender body and narrow head evenly taper to a whip-like tail and as a whole is probably around 4 feet in length. Apart from the teeth, other distinctive characteristics of chimaeras include hollow dead looking eyes and their shape, fin shaped like wings, snout shape and a pattern of open channels on their heads and faces, called lateral line canals, that contain sensory cells that can sense the movement of water to help them sense their prey. An elusive 'ghost shark' has come out of hiding, as video has captured footage of the fish whose face looks as if it were stitched together in a Frankenstein-like manner for the first time. Another interesting thing about chimaeras is that the males have their sex organs on their foreheads which they can retract. Also, unlike the well-known sharks, chimaeras don’t have rows of ragged teeth and instead have mineralized tooth plates with which they munch on their prey. After consulting Marine Biodiversity Records, they were able to identify it as a pointy-nosed blue chimaera. Luckily, the camera caught a fish that looked like a new ghost shark, but not one the researchers have seen before. In 2009, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California sent a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on several dives up to depths of 6,700 feet off California and Hawaii. They are a hard to find species and only recently researchers from MBARI were able to film one using remotely operated vehicle. Drunken sea captain Blaise Shaw became a hero to the small seaside community of Harmony after killing the great white shark that was deemed responsible, but the Christy Bruce murder was no shark attack. Her severed arm washed ashore a day later. ![]() Advertisements Unlike other ghost sharks, pointy-nosed blue chimaeras prefer rocky outcrops over flat, soft-bottomed terrains and are found at depths of 2,000 to 6,500 feet (610 to 2,100 meters). Last Fourth of July, teenager Christy Bruce disappeared from a high school beach party. ![]()
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