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- adjective Having six
pairs ofgill slits , as somesharks do. - noun A shark with six pairs of gill slits.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In just the past month, published studies have revealed that deep-water sixgill sharks travel in family groups, that blue whales in the North Pacific can tune their songs to the same pitch, and that tiny plankton may have a profound effect on the intensity and direction of hurricanes.
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In just the past month, published studies have revealed that deep-water sixgill sharks travel in family groups, that blue whales in the North Pacific can tune their songs to the same pitch, and that tiny plankton may have a profound effect on the intensity and direction of hurricanes.
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In mid-August, Rendezvous Dive Adventures in Barkley Sound sponsored its first Shark Week, coinciding with the time when most sixgill sightings occur.
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As for extras, the only addition is another program called Mystery Shark with Brady Barr. This documentary focuses on the study of the sixgill shark, which lives at depths of up to
DVD Verdict 2010
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B.C.'s Hornby Island Diving thrived as a premier destination for scuba divers to view sixgill sharks in the 1980s and '90s, but all that has changed.
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That may go a long ways towards explaining their sudden disappearance and the long time frame before people started seeing sixgill sharks again.
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Some of the sharks that live in Puget Sound include spiny dogfish sharks, sixgill sharks, sevengill sharks and salmon sharks.
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University of B.C. marine biologist Chris Harvey-Clark, who served as a guest speaker during Shark Week, strongly believes the last Canadian commercial fishery damaged sixgill shark ecotourism.
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Some of the sharks that live in Puget Sound include spiny dogfish sharks, sixgill sharks, sevengill sharks and salmon sharks.
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A study of 34 sixgill sharks by Washington state's Northwest Fisheries Science Center found the creatures resided in Puget Sound for up to at least four years before moving out of the estuary.
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