NEWSWEEK - For the first time, a live baby great white shark has been spotted in the wild.
The shark was around 5 feet long already and pure white, unlike its grey-colored adult counterparts, leading scientists to believe it could be a baby great white, according to a new paper discussing the finding in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes.
The baby shark was sighted off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, on July 9, 2023, by wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna, and Phillip Sternes, a UC Riverside biology doctoral student, who captured the rare occurrence on a drone camera.