When the shark opens its mouth, it's kind of like opening your jacket on a windy day. It inflates out and that cartilage gives it some structure so that its skin isn't just flapping around. Jonathan Houghton More Quotes by Jonathan Houghton More Quotes From Jonathan Houghton That's not unusual, if you put electronics in the sea, some things just glitch up after a while. Jonathan Houghton top-news That this animal, three years later, appeared to have become a part of the North American population is a very new finding, there's not a kind of bungee cord effect where they have to return back to the other side. Jonathan Houghton top-news Until that moment, we had never been able to follow the movement of a shark for more than, say, nine months or a year. So to understand its movements on a time scale of three years, on a different side of the Atlantic, that's completely changed the way we think. Jonathan Houghton top-news We knew that trans-Atlantic movement could happen but it wasn't very common. Jonathan Houghton top-news