Long recently discovered shark Parin only 14 inches

looking through an old collection of marine fauna the National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA), scientists stumbled upon a unique pocket shark Parin, or malleswara stored frozen since 2010, reports The Washington Post.

Photo credit: NOAA / NMFS / SEFSC / Miami Laboratory

Frozen malliswari is the second in the history recorded by the representative of a very rare collection of miniature sharks. The first sample of a long 40 cm was caught 36 years ago off the coast of Peru Russian research vessel "ichthyander".

Long recently discovered shark Parin only 14 inches, but scientists believe that malleswara most likely was a cub, since she did not have time to heal the umbilical scar.

According to NOAA biologists, they are incredibly lucky to find this sweet and reminiscent of a miniature whale shark", as the lab fridge a few times off and all the samples could be destroyed.

Now malliswari will be sent to France for further study. Scientists hope that they will be able to understand where these sharks are, how they live and where live.

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