Posted on 08/03/2022 7:15:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Greenland sharks normally live in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.
The shark looks like a Greenland shark but was released before a genetic sample could be collected. The shark looks like a Greenland shark but was released before a genetic sample could be collected. (Image credit: Devanshi Kasana/FIU) A strange, ancient-looking shark with blue eyes was unexpectedly discovered in the tropical waters of the Caribbean when it was hooked by Belizean fishers and a biologist on April 22.
Researchers recently determined that the unusual fish may have been a Greenland shark or a Greenland shark hybrid in the sleeper shark family — the first of its kind seen in western Caribbean waters.
The strange shark was caught at Glover’s Reef off Belize, and the boat’s crew instantly knew they’d captured something out of the ordinary. "I knew it was something unusual and so did the fishers, who hadn’t ever seen anything quite like it in all their combined years of fishing," Devanshi Kasana, a doctoral candidate at Florida International University who was part of the crew and led the new study, said in a statement.
With an estimated length of up to 12 feet (3.5 meters), the mysterious shark was released before it could be formally identified. Sleeper sharks are normally found in the ocean's deepest, coldest waters, with Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) typically dwelling in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. The new discovery supports a hypothesis that these sharks may be more widespread than previously thought.
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Ping!..................
They are probably spotted all over world... they are blind after all
Just taking a Caribbean Vay-Cay after Shark Week.........................
Damn you global warming!
Probably just old, swam all the way with its turn signal on.
Lol, shark week be stressful!
What do they expect.
He’s half-blind.
If it is a Greenland shark, they can live to be 400 years old. That’s right, four hundred years old. -Tom
Maybe it as his Farewell Cruise.....................
Don’t tell any Icelanders. They’ll want to catch it, ferment it, and serve it with licorice-flavored vodka.
Probably just retired, wants the warmer climate.
You win the thread!
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