No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree

submitted by solo to biodiversity 3 points | 0 comments https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00594-w Archive link > Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks. > The results, which haven’t been peer reviewed, suggest that most animals that people call sharks are more closely related to rays and skates than to hexanchiform shark species — just as Gould pointed was the case for some species called fishes. Biologists call such groups paraphyletic.