A team from the ministry and other authorities was able to capture the shark, adding that local authorities had issued a ban on several beaches near the attack site.
The new shark species was named Apristurus ovicorrugatus, in reference to the strange-looking egg cases that led to the species' discovery.
The attack follows the death in February of a girl mauled by a shark in a river in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.
Shark gills can act as natural radiators, cooling down the blood, muscles and organs of a shark.
An underwater robot sent by Israeli researchers to the depths of the sea of the Gulf of Eilat recently discovered a guitarfish.
The victim reportedly jumped in the water to swim with a pod of dolphins when she was bitten by a shark.
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