Things We Saw Today: A Very Rare Photo Of An Oceanic Shark Giving Birth

First record of oceanic shark birth!! BBC article: http://t.co/cwZ7uXAVvC Link to paper: http://t.co/zEdPEKOzml pic.twitter.com/wOelrjMY0S — Natasha Phillips (@sunfishresearch) January 13, 2015

Dr. Simon Oliver and A. E. Bicskos Kaszo captured what’s thought to be the first or one of the first photos of an oceanic shark giving birth. The image has been published in the journal Coral Reefs. As Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute senior scientist Dr. Simon Therrold told BBC:

I have never seen a comparable image for any other pelagic shark. It may well be, or at least the first time that the event has been photographed, but this is always difficult to say definitively.

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