Pygmy shark (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Pygmy shark

Caption

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. 

Credit

Blue Planet Archive / Masa Ushioda.

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