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A new species of "walking" shark has been discovered in a reef off a remote Indonesian island
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These sharks don't always rely on "walking" to move about — often, they only appear to touch the seafloor as they swim using their pectoral and pelvic fins in a walklike gait
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The shark grows up to 27 inches (70 centimeters) long and is harmless to humans
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Hemiscyllium halmahera, named after the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera where it was found
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Of all known
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walking sharks, six of nine species hail from Indonesia
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The animals lay eggs under coral ledges, after which the young sharks lead relatively sedentary lives until adulthood
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These sharks do not cross areas of deep water and are found in isolated reefs
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The Carolina hammerhead has long eluded discovery due to the fact that it is outwardly indistinguishable from the common scalloped hammerhead
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The new species, named Sphyrna gilberti, was actually discovered as scientists were looking for more common hammerheads.
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Scientists have now announced that they've discovered a new species of rare shark, the Carolina hammerhead
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South Carolina is a well-known pupping ground for several species of sharks, which means that researchers were collecting samples there for study
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The scalloped hammerheads that they were collecting had two different genetic signatures in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes
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the scientists found that the anomalous scalloped hammerhead had been described in 1967 and had 10 fewer vertebrae than the normal scalloped hammerhead. Intrigued
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In the end, the scientists found that there was genetic evidence to show that this hammerhead was, in fact, a new species.
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scientists aren't sure exactly how many individuals still exist in the wild
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