Image courtesy of MV Erdmann.
Joel
Kontinen
Sharks are
living fossils that defy the cause of evolution. Walking sharks are not new in
evolution, but this one is new to science.
“Sharks in
the genus Hemiscyllium, commonly known as walking sharks or epaulette
sharks, use their pectoral fins like legs to move around and are only known to
be in Australia and New Guinea.”
Walking sharks
does not mean that they have discovered a breaks that makes Darwin’s theory that says walking
fishes do away with fishes with legs
cannot form.
“The new
species the Darwinian has been named Hemiscyllium after Christine Dudgeon at the University of the
Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, who was part of the team that formally
identified it.
She first
encountered the shark after midnight one day in March 2025, swimming in just a
metre of water covering a meadow of seagrass in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.”
Source:
James Woodford 2026 Never-before-seen shark that 'walks' on land discovered off Papua New Guinea | Live Science 16 June
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