Valuable ultrasound images capturing 20 babies who were in the world's first pregnant shark's stomach

I heard that about 3.6 meters of Iti Shark captured by marine researchers was placed on an ultrasonic echo device and found that they were pregnant, and it seemed that shark babies of 40 to 45 cm per body that were in the shark's body for the first time in the world moved I succeeded in shooting.

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It is a mustard shark that the research team captured. Through the mouth is a pattern of tubes for throwing some medicine so as not to run or run away.


I applied the ultrasonic echo device to the belly of the weakish shark that became quiet ... ...


The man noticed "What a shame! You are a pregnant shark!" A man asked "What can you see?" He says, "I see that the spinal cord is moving."


Dr. James Sulikowski of the Department of Marine Science, New England University was conducting ultrasonic echo examination. "The baby of the shark was well developed in the stomach, I think that the total length per pet is about 40 to 45 cm," he said.


It is this that made the image of the actual ultrasonic echo trace with the line to make it easy to understand. You can see that all the parts that are already needed as sharks are formed with sizes that are born in a few more months.


Although the range visible with ultrasonic echo is partly, "brothers" comes out from the bottom, etc. It is clearly shown that several child sharks move in the body. Whether or not a shark is pregnant seems to have been unprecedented only by breaking her stomach, but it proved that the ultrasonic echo device can also be used for pregnancy testing of sharks.


A woman who saw the image said, "I can not believe that there are teeth! Cool tooth is growing."


The research team name this shark is "Emily". As a result of talking to "Would you like something to do?" As a result, we attached "satellite tag" and watched over Emily's going.


Emily who was tagged is returned to the sea, and one year can track the whereabouts. When Emily begins to stay somewhere in a certain place, you can see that she is preparing to give birth to a child. It seems that we plan to secure Emily 's stay area if it comes to birth.


In addition, although a hole has been emptied in the fins, the wound is to heal naturally.