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'Prehistoric' relative of sharks try to make a comeback near Florida
For 16 years, Jim Gelsleichter and his students surveyed the waters in southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida to learn more about the sharks, rays and other related species in the region. In all those years, one fish remained elusive, the endangered …