grey nurse shark

noun

1. a common greyish Australian shark, Odontaspis arenarius

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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".

From BBC

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.

From Salon

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

From Time Magazine Archive