Could you imagine seeing a shark... that walks?!
Well now you can! Apparently they've been walking close to 9 million years. Walking sharks could be the most recently evolved shark on Earth! They spent years sampling the DNA of the only known walking shark species to estimate when they evolved.
Walking sharks have spots that resemble the military decor and walk on their muscular fins to forage the small fish along the reefs and sea grass. DNA scientists created evolutionary timelines and found out that walking sharks started to split off from their evolutionary relatives around 9 million years ago!
How crazy is that?! For more information, click here.
Have you heard of a walking shark before?