of 1,216 sick Danish and Norwegian prisoners had been transported to Sweden. Two days later, all Scandinavian prisoners in Neuengamme had been evacuated.

During the evening of 19 April, the evacuation of Scandinavian prisoners from Neuengamme was discussed in a meeting at Friedrichsruh castle. Bernadotte, Frykmann, and Richert from the Swedish side were present, with Rennau for the Germans while Hvass and Holm represented Denmark. The situation was critical, the existing Swedish and Danish vehicles in Friedrichsruh did not have enough capacity to evacuate the prisoners fast enough. The Danes offered additional vehicles from Jyllandskorpset, and their offer was accepted. A total of 4,255 Danish and Norwegian prisoners were evacuated, by 100 Danish and 20 Swedish buses. After a few days in Denmark, the prisoners were sent on byfish that gave rise to ghost sharks branched off from the group that evolved into sharks more than 359 million years ago, which is when a mass extinction killed off 75 percent of life on Earth. That’s much earlier than previous estimates of 334 million years ago.

Ghost sharks went viral at the end of December after the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute released a video of an elusive, wayward species that typically swims around Australia and New Zealand. Researchers caught this one on camera with an underwater drone off the coast of California, more than two miles beneath the ocean’s surface. It was the first time this particular species has been captured on video, and the first time it’s been seen in the Northern Hemisphere.

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