AdvertisementLast summer, a drone captured footage of a ghostly white shark near the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
It turned out to be an extremely rare sighting of a baby white shark, and its appearance could help scientists solve some big mysteries.
A strange white colorDespite their name, white sharks are usually gray and white.
AdvertisementPregnant white sharks produce the yellowish fluid, uterine milk, to provide nutrition for the developing embryo.
"Observations of free-swimming newborn white sharks are extremely rare," Tobey Curtis, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shark scientist who didn't participate in the research, told Science.
Persons:
—, Carlos Gauna, Phillip Sternes, Sternes, Tobey Curtis, Curtis
Organizations:
Service, University of California, Administration, Science
Locations:
California, Santa Barbara , California, Riverside