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‘Ghost sharks’ are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads

‘Ghost sharks’ are lurking off the coast of Washington – and they have teeth growing out of their foreheads

It’s easy to assume that teeth always grow inside mouths, yet a new study has revealed that some animals – such as the spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) – grow them elsewhere. Sometimes referred to as ‘ghost sharks’, adult male spotted ratfish have strange-looking hooked protrusions that appear on a head structure called the tenaculum, which the fish use to grasp …

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