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Meet the first Maugean skate hatchling born in captivity… https://ausgeo.co/maugeanskate

The Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) – a species of ray – once dominated Tasmanian waters. In fact, its lineage can be traced as far back as the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago.

Now classified as endangered, the ancient skate’s population has almost halved in the past decade, but scientists at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania are running a captive breeding program to save this special species.

📷 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS

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