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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

Baby shark! Researchers may have captured first image of newborn great white

white swimming animal that looks like a fish
An apparent baby great white shark spotted in drone footage. Photograph: Carlos Gauna/The Malibu Artist

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.

The newborn animal has never before been spotted in the wild. But in July, the wildlife film-maker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a biology doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside, glimpsed something unexpected in the waters near Santa Barbara on California’s central coast.

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