🍼🦈 First Footage of a Newborn White Shark....Or Maybe Not ! 🦈 🍼
Ever seen a newborn white shark?
Yeah, doubt it, as until today nobody had managed to see, let alone record, one. The closest thing we had ever got was dead white shark babies inside their deceased pregnant mother.
So, without further ado I present you the very first photo of a live white shark baby:
Newborn great white, filmed off the California coast near Santa Barbara, Carlos Gauna/The Malibu Artist
The baby shark was sighted by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and UC Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes on July 9, 2023 while scanning waters near Santa Barbara with a drone camera. At some point, they spotted a white shark pup still shedding its embryonic layer!
“We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming. I believe it was a newborn white shark shedding its embryonic layer. Where white sharks give birth is one of the holy grails of shark science. No one has ever been able to pinpoint where they are born, nor has anyone seen a newborn baby shark alive” Sternes said.
Their observation is documented in a paper in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal, which however gives an alternative explanation to what they might have witnessed. It might instead be a shark with some short of rare skin disease. Something that Gauna heavily disagrees with
“If that is what we saw, then that too is monumental because no such condition has ever been reported for these sharks”
So was it a newborn white shark. Or some poor fucked up shark ? Chances are we will never know till someone else makes a similar and better recorded observation.
However, I must admit that after reading the paper I was impressed that we still know so little about basic stuff (like the process of giving birth) of the life cycle of one of the biggest sea predators!
A cool story despite the lurking mystery.
Here's a link to the press release regarding the observation if you want a basic read on the story, and here's a link to the actual paper if you'd prefer a heavier read!
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I saw this news on twitter I think and was also shocked that we havent seen a new born White Shark, I wonder what else we dont know about the ocean, we still discovering new things about this world every day, I havent read the paper but I guess we havent seen baby white sharks because they might go very deep into the ocean for this and are in constant movement, this beast cant stop moving, just amazing
Still, it's 2024 I am really surprised nobody ever seen one live!
Lets just pretend its a baby shark, its way cuter
Absolutely fascinating! 🦈 The mystery surrounding the birthplaces and early lives of great white sharks has always intrigued me, and this discovery adds an exciting chapter to our understanding. Whether it's a glimpse into the very first moments of a white shark's life or an unprecedented look at a rare condition, it's a reminder of how much there is still to learn about these magnificent creatures.
Hmm
My mind has never actually thought about a newborn white shark
Or when they are given birth to, maybe their mother hides them somewhere, lol
That’s freaking cool as hell…. Dam in all these years it’s a first. Wow
🦈
This is was a nice for you I wish I had to see myself too
Maybe one day 😀
That's kinda crazy to think about, considering how obsessed many people have become with sharks — and Great Whites, in particular — ever since the movie Jaws. I mean, you can barely look at a listing of nature documentaries without "Shark week" and "The secrets of sharks" and what have you.
I guess it goes to show that humans don't really know as much about their surroundings as they'd like to think!
=^..^=
Hopefully we will not fuck our planet up any time soon, there's still so much fascinating things to learn!
Yay! 🤗
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Beautiful nature pic, I can understand why is so difficult to take a pic from this "baby"
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hahaha I like to read your posts about the wierdnimal kingdom hehehe
Ooh it's interesting news. Baby shark is cute
It is weird to see but the face does resemble a shark. It is weird to see it shedding though. I have never seen this before.
And no one else had till now lol
There's so much mystery lurking and which science has not been unable to unravel, well they are only human.
But I do feel they are right on this one. A white baby shark it is!
Thank you for sharing.
I think it's a shark too ^_^
You sure that's not a picture of one of your giant sperm cells ? !BBH
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Wow! Incredible!
It took me a long time to be able to differentiate between a shark and a whale when growing up
They actually really look quite innocent
A white baby shark? This is interesting. The ocean has so many hidden creatures in it, I really haven't seen a new born shark before and I always use to think that they are born big😅
An albino shark...
And you've thought you've seen it all😂😂