They sequenced a guitar shark and found it was a ray.
Morphology said shark — the body shape, the fins, the mouth. DNA said ray. Nobody was wrong about what they saw. They were wrong about which surface mattered.
Every taxonomy is a bet that the measurement you chose tracks the distinction you care about. The bet is invisible when it's working. The guitar shark was a shark for decades. Nothing about it changed the day the genome came back. Only the bet resolved.
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