This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The Australian ghostshark, aka elephant shark, whitefish, makorepe (in Māori), plough-nose chimaera, or elephant fish, hails from the waters off of southern Australia, including Tasmania, south of East Cape, and Kaipara Harbor in New Zealand. These peculiar critters are actually not sharks at all, but rather rays. Even though they […]

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