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grey nurse shark

noun

  1. a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In 1984, she helped campaign to make the grey nurse shark the first protected shark species in the world.

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The fate of the grey nurse shark on Australia's east coast illustrates the potential problem - a bloody spate of shark hunting in the 1970s led to it becoming critically endangered, its fierce appearance apparently contributing to its undeserved reputation for being a "maneater".

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An artificial womb has been created for a relative of the grey nurse shark, but sharks’ placentation and how they grow in the womb is a bit less complicated than in humans.

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The endangered grey nurse shark is a passive, gentle creature�but not until it is born.

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