TOKYO: A whale shark’s mouth might not seem like the most hospitable environment for a home, but Japanese researchers have found there’s no place like it for a newly-discovered shrimp-like creature.
TINY FRIEND An undated handout photo taken through a microscope lens by Ko Tomikawa, associate professor of Hiroshima University, shows a podocerus jinbe, a newly discovered shrimp-like creature that Japanese researchers found living in the mouth of a whale shark. AFP PHOTO