The Agnatha. Around 500 to 450 million years ago the first primitive fishes appeared in the fossil record. They were the Agnathans and they were characterized by two (dorsal and ventral) bony shields on the head with many trunk scales tapering towards a primitive caudal fin in which the notochord turned upwards rather like the sharks of today., Each year, there are consistently fewer than 100 unprovoked bites, making it more likely for someone to win the lottery than to be attacked by a shark. When there are more attacks, it often means that more people are spending time in the water — not that sharks have become more dangerous. Miguez described it as a numbers game. Increased human , Also available in French and Spanish. Ground-breaking New Study Finds Global Abundance Down 71% and 77% of species threatened. 27th January @ 16.00 GMT, 2021. A new analysis, ‘Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays’ published today in the journal Nature documents an alarming, ongoing, global decline of oceanic shark and ray populations over the past 50 years, primarily , Porbeagle, shortfin mako and longfin mako sharks are listed as migratory species under the EPBC Act. Provided an operator is fishing in accordance with an accredited AFMA fisheries management plan, the operator may keep and trade these migratory sharks that are brought up dead, however, live sharks must be returned to the sea unharmed as per advice from the Department of the Environment and , a) about 500,000 b) a little less than 1 million c) about 1.7 million d) a little more than 10 million e) about 30 million c) about 1.7 million Most of the species that are yet undiscovered are probably a) mammals and reptiles., .