Meet Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada, the scientist who helped uncover a ghost shark species hiding in Costa Rica’s dark waters
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PC: Kuwait TimesFar below the surface of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, where sunlight disappears and fishing grounds give way to deep water, three unusual fish specimens had been sitting in scientific collections for years.
They would eventually become the basis for describing a species unknown to science.
At the centre of that work was Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada, a biology student at the University of Costa Rica who became the lead author of the study.
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PC: Kuwait TimesFar below the surface of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, where sunlight disappears and fishing grounds give way to deep water, three unusual fish specimens had been sitting in scientific collections for years.
They would eventually become the basis for describing a species unknown to science.
At the centre of that work was Naidely Valeria Vidaurre-Quesada, a biology student at the University of Costa Rica who became the lead author of the study.