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Sweet love

COMPILED BY R. KRITHIKA

The Newport Aquarium is looking for luck around Valentine's Day. The aquarium has found a male shark ray to give female shark ray, Sweet Pea, some company. The new fish, whose name will be decided by a "Name the Shark" contest is in being acclimatised and will be released into the aquarium on Valentine's Day. Officials are hoping that these two get together and produce offspring to ensure the survival of this threatened fish. Shark rays are in the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species, which means that numbers are extremely low and the species might tip over into the endangered species list. Shark rays are a prehistoric-looking fish with ridges on their neck and back, a dorsal fin and a round underside. Not much is known about the mysterious fish and this will give aquatic experts time to study it as well.

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