Being albino — even partially so — could put some sharks at a disadvantage to predators hovering around above them.
SharkoFiles: Ghost Shark
This species are formally known as chimeras and informally as the spookfish. They are a small group of cartilaginous fishes. This species of sharks have been around for over 400 million years. Although they are called ghost sharks, they are not true sharks. These species spent most their time below the sea at a depth […]
The 15 worst shark-themed movies of all time
It seems that every media outlet since the invention of Gutenberg’s press has done a charticle on the greatest shark films ever made. This, of course, is lazy journalism. Spoiler alert: They all end with Jaws. And while there is plenty to debate among the rest of the best, it leaves out an entire subgenre […]
Rare ‘ghost shark’ caught on video for first time
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California captured the first-ever underwater footage of pointy-nosed blue chimaeras, a rare species of”ghost sharks,” while researching deepwater valleys around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of Central California. It also marks the first time the species, which was first discovered in 2002 off the coast of New Zealand, had […]