Elusive sleeper shark seen off Antarctica in a 1st
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A deep-sea camera captured the first-ever shark recorded in Antarctic waters - a 10- to 13-foot sleeper shark swimming 1,608 feet below the surface.
The southern sleeper shark is a large, slow-moving species of deepwater shark typically found across the Southern Ocean from central Chile to the sub-Antarctic Islands. While it is well adapted to cold temperatures, it’s still rare to see this species venture into the frigid waters immediately surrounding Antarctica.
Many experts had thought sharks did not exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, resear