The shark, normally found deep in the icy waters of the Arctic, was spotted swimming 4,000 miles away in the temperate Caribbean Sea. Scientists couldn't believe it.
The seemingly-missing shark in Greenland was found inoff the coast of Belize inCentral America by a team of researchers. showed up while on a fishing boattagging a tiger shark.
Her Devanshi Kasana, a doctoral student at the Florida International University, was part of a crew that worked with local fishermen. Like "pretty dull creatures."
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Julius Nilsen/PA)She added: "At first, I was convinced that she was something like a six-girdled shark,well known in the depths of the reef.
." So did the fishermen. They had never seen anything like this in all their years of fishing combined.
Kasana took a picture of the enigmatic animal and sent it to her advisor. The advisor said it looked like a Greenland shark. It was quickly confirmed by a specific species expert.
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Dotted Zebra/Alamy Stock Photo)Another possibility is , which may be a hybrid of Greenland and Pacific sleepers. shark.
Omar Four, afishermanon a boat said: Belize, but I didn't expect to catch a Greenland shark.
This is the first time a large shark has been seen in the western Caribbean away from her second-largest reef in the world, according to the university. Image: Hemiblind Greenland sharks are rare and most Long-lived vertebrae animals are known, with an estimated age of 250-500 years. Earlier this year, the body of a Greenlandic shark, believed to have originated in the Tudor era, was found on a beach atNewlyn He Harbor near Penzance, Cornwall.
A spokesperson for Mermaid Pleasure Trips, who spotted the shark after it was pushed back into the ocean by the tide, said: ."
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