September 19, 2006Two new species of small, slender sharks
that "walk" along coral reefs have been discovered off the coast of the
Southeast Asian country of Indonesia (read the full news story).
The sharks are among more than
50 species new to science that were found during two recent expeditions
to the Bird's Head Seascape, a peninsula on the northwestern end of
Indonesia's Papua province (Indonesia map).
Take
a dive and meet the "walking" sharks and some of their neighbors in this
unnarrated video, and see photos of the colorful creatures.
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