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Epaulette sharks, found in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, are able 'walk' on land by shuffling forward with their fins - and are able to survive for up to two hours without oxygen

Ground-breaking new research has found a shark that “breaks all the rules for survival”.

In a statement, Florida Atlantic University said young epaulette sharks are able to walk out of water using their fins - and can also endure around two hours without any oxygen.

This is a product of “challenging environmental conditions”, according to researchers.

Their habitat - Southern Australia’s Great Barrier Reef - can sometimes be completely isolated by the outgoing tide. The sharks therefore use their paddle-shaped fins to “manoeuvre into small reef crevices to avoid aerial and aquatic predators.”

Scientists are now investigating how these walking abilities change in an epaulette shark’s early development.

Other species of walking shark can be found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea

The senior author of the study, Dr Marianne E. Porter, commented: "Studying epaulette shark locomotion allows us to understand this species' - and perhaps related species '- ability to move within and away from challenging conditions in their habitats”.

Dr Porter has now called for further investigation into climate change and how this will alter conditions for epaulette sharks in the future.

The sharks, which grow to be about 3 feet long, may be key for scientists to find out more about fast evolution.

Compared to hammerhead sharks, for example, which evolved over 45 million years ago, according to the National History Museum in London, epaulette sharks likely evolved their ability to walk in only 9 million years.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-baffled-shark-breaks-rules-27791437

The world is evolving why some countryin western part of Africa are bating. Obidient is betterthan batting

Evolution

wow!

Na small thing, living things are gradually evolving to adapt to their changing environment.
The other day they said one fish also dey climb tree, today again shark dey walk.

Ok

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... And all that he created, science, human, and modern technologies now and the years ahead wouldn't be able to unravelled the the mystery.
God is wonderful
God is ubiquitous
God is all that you see around you...
When we all go in the years ahead, God will be God...
Let someone say
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Lobatan

Crawl on land would have been more appropriate, walk how?

Mm

All nature cares for is an animal being able to survive to the age of sexual maturity. Anything e wan do after reproduction no concern nature.

That the procedure baffles scientists is a good thing. Watch them follow the animal for years on end until reasons are discovered. At the end of the day humans benefit. One can’t compare the process to a school of thought which goes “thou shall not question things they observe.” Cough, cough, no wonder theists are still backward in a modern world.

Village people shark

Emilokan shark....no matter how he bribes nature it's going no where

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Reminds me of the theory of evolution: innovate or die.

Every nations around us in Nigeria are becoming the very best versions of themselves. Ghana, south Africa are just case studies.

We are taken back to the stone ages by the kind of people promising change. What a change we have got.

Nigerians, once again, we are presented with the opportunity to choose between life and death.

Obidently choose life that you may live.

Nigeria in the next eight years will be worse than this

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Who cares

What we only care about is BBN
And comedy

They can research all they want

Scientists are naturally poor people

They are not as rich as Davido , WizKid and burna boy

Why would I study science