The Dark Sharks
The Dark Sharks are a clade of sharks descending from the Sharkopaths that have found success across many ecological niches at the height of the Ice Age's ocean productivity.
While not as large as the lamniform-mimic Kitefin Sharks that hunt large game like the Brute Sharks, they are the most pelagic and feed on prey smaller than themselves.
They do best in dark waters spending the day in the bathypelagic and making vertical migrations to the surface to hunt at night.
Like other Kite Fin Sharks, they switch between a sluggish cruising speed and brief bursts of extreme speeds of over 80 KM per hour among the fastest animals in the ocean.
Like the infamous Sharkopath, they hunt in fission-fusion shoals and are adorned in bioluminescent patches on the skin.
The bioluminescence serves as communication informing others of potential prey or predators and the shark's movements when hunting since their main prey is bait fish where they torpedo into the bait ball to grab a mouthful.
They are occasionally hunted by large Ichthy-Ichthys and Brute Sharks. They are usually too fast to be caught and can be found alongside them as well as Squeals, Seabird Blish, and their filter-feeding cousins at large bait balls.
