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A newborn great white shark has been seen in the wild for the first time, and the discovery could help scientists finally solve a longstanding mystery about the threatened species.
What is believed to be the world's first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark was released Monday, in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal, and the 5-foot-long, white pup could make scientific history.
Drone footage shot off the coast of Southern California may have revealed the first ever glimpse of a newborn great white shark in the wild. The 1.5-meter-long (5-foot-long) white shark...
For the first time, an infant great white shark is believed to have been caught on camera, shortly after it was born. For years, wildlife photographer and videographer Carlos Gauna has...
Size: Up to 21 feet long. Weight: Up to 4,500 pounds. At birth a baby great white shark is already about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long; as it grows it may reach a length up to four times that. The pup...
In a rare and extraordinary moment, images of a newborn great white shark were captured off Santa Barbara’s coast for what may be the first time ever.
First, great white females give birth to live pups. While in utero, the embryonic sharks might feed on unfertilized eggs for protein. The mothers offer additional nourishment to the growing shark pups with a ‘milk’ secreted in the uterus.
The pair identified the nearly 5-foot long shark as a great white pup by its size and rounded fins, similar to embryos previously discovered. The paper suggests that it was only hours to days old. The white substance could have been uterine milk which mother sharks produce to feed the embryos.
For decades, scientists struggled to determine where great white sharks gave birth. But in July 2023, two shark specialists — a filmmaker and a biologist searching for sharks off the coast of central California — captured what they describe as the world’s first footage of a wild great white newborn.
Just offshore, in an area known as the New York Bight, hundreds of baby great white sharks figure out how to feed, navigate, and evade predators in what researchers now believe to be the...