Baby shark! Researchers may have captured first image of newborn great white
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California scientist and film-maker spot apparent pup – never before seen in the wild – in drone pictures
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    Researchers in California may have gotten the first ever look at a newborn great white shark, which they captured in drone images taken last summer.

    “We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming,” Sternes said in a university statement.

    Sternes and Gauna, who have filmed sharks around the world in YouTube videos that have millions of views, documented their findings in an article published this week in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal.

    The animal they saw was within the size range of newborn sharks and its appearance was similar to near-term embryos, they wrote.

    Gauna said he had previously observed large great whites in the area that appeared pregnant and the newborn shark emerged within the time frame that pups are birthed.

    “There are a lot of hypothetical areas, but despite intense interest in these sharks, no one’s seen a birth or a newborn pup in the wild,” Sternes said.

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