A Tad Spiny, But With Violet Fins to Die For: 5 Questions with Shark Ecologist Paul Clerkin

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A Tad Spiny, But With Violet Fins to Die For: 5 Questions with Shark Ecologist Paul Clerkin

<img class=" " src="http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Clerkin2.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="203" align="right" />Many of the species of sharks (and shark relatives) that Paul Clerkin studies live at such depths that the only contact they have with humans is when they surface as bycatch on commercial trawlers. On a two-month voyage aboard one such vessel last year, Clerkin, a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, discovered some 10 species new to science.

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