{"id":26835,"date":"2024-09-25T01:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26835"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:36:13","slug":"ghost-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ghost-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Ghost Sharks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ghost Sharks:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghost sharks, also known as <strong>chimaeras and spookfish<\/strong>, are a group of <strong>cartilaginous fish<\/strong> closely <strong>related to sharks <\/strong>and rays.<\/li>\n<li>They genetically diverged from their shark relatives nearly 400 million years ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They have <strong>long, tapering bodies<\/strong> and incredibly <strong>large heads.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The ghost shark\u2019s maximum observed length is about 49 inches, but scientists believe they can grow to be more than six feet in some cases.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Their skin ranges in color from black to pale blue to brownish grey.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>haunting black eyes<\/strong> and <strong>smooth<\/strong>, light brown, <strong>scale-free skin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>eyes<\/strong> are backed with <strong>a reflective tissue layer<\/strong> that makes them <strong>seem toglow in the dark<\/strong>, contributing to an eerie\u2014even <strong>ghostlike\u2014appearance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>live at depths<\/strong> ranging from 200 meters to <strong>2,600 meters<\/strong> and generally stay <strong>close to the seafloor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their diet primarily consists of shellfish, mollusks, and worms that live on or under the seafloor.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are sometimes referred to as the <strong>ocean\u2019s butterflies<\/strong> for the way they <strong>glide through the water with their large pectoral fins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ghost sharks are thought to be <strong>solitary animals,<\/strong> as they are generally observed alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are Sharks?<\/h3>\n<p>Sharks are fishes and most have the typical fusiform body shape. Like other fishes, sharks are ectothermic (cold-blooded), live in water, have fins, and breathe with gills. However, sharks differ from Osteichthyes fish. One difference is that a shark&#8217;s skeleton is made of cartilage instead of bone. Another visible difference is that bony fish tend to have a single gill slit, whereas all but two species of shark have 5 gill slits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/etimes\/trending\/all-about-rare-ghost-shark-species-found-in-pacific-waters\/articleshow\/113642304.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All about rare ghost shark species found in Pacific waters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost sharks, also known as chimaeras and spookfish, are a group of cartilaginous fish closely related to sharks and rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}