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Deep-Sea Ghost Sharks Grow Teeth on Their Foreheads, and Scientists Finally Know Why

Male ghost sharks use tooth-studded rods on their foreheads for mating. Fossil and genetic evidence prove they are true teeth, showcasing evolutionary flexibility. Male “ghost sharks,” eerie deep-sea fish known as chimaeras and closely related to sharks and rays, have a strange rod that projects

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