New Iberian Stringray Discovered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 2nd, 2006
New species of stingray found in the Algarve
A new species of stringray, which has never been encountered before in Iberian waters, has been discovered in the Algarve.
The miniature stringray, christened Ana by staff at the Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve, lives in deep waters off the Algarve coast.
The discovery has set off a flurry of interest from world scientists, including German marine biologist Matthias Stehmann and French biologist Bernard Seret, who have arrived in the Algarve to study the fish.
Source:
02 November 2006
Algarve Resident
Lagoa, Algarve, Portugal
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Interesting. Captured alive and placed in a aquarium?
Nice!
Give me a Kraken, my kingdom for a Kraken!
Not a big surprise. we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the sea floor. Wonder what else is down there.
Too bad there’s no picture.