One Of The World's Rarest Sharks Could Be Living In...Wales

Tests are underway in Wales to find out if Angel sharks could be living in Welsh waters around, all year round.

It's hoped that the area around Cardigan Bay could be a hot spot for the endangered species, so now The Angel Shark Project Wales will test 10 locations every month for the next year for traces of DNA.

Angel sharks are a large flat-bodied shark species that spend a large amount of their time buried under mud and sand, as they are an ambush predator that sits on the ocean floor. There are records of it being sighted in Welsh waters since 1812.

After suffering widespread decline across its range over the last century, there have been an increasing number of sightings of this rare species along the Welsh coast in recent years, giving hope for it’s future.

Words by Dean Newman

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