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Deep Sea Creature Shocks Scientists by Appearing in Antarctic Waters for the First Time

2026-02-17 1,803 Dailymotion

Scientists have recorded a rare sighting of a shark in Antarctic waters. Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center — spotted an unidentified species of sleeper shark swimming slowly through the Southern Ocean off the South Shetland Islands, near Antarctica, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.