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Leaping Through The Fields! A Springbok (Antidorcas Marsupialis) springs into the air while running in Africa. Photograph By Ralph Lee Hopkins, National Geographic Image Collection
Out of Our Way! Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes Taurinus) bound into the Mara River as they migrate through Kenyaâs Masai Mara National Reserve. Photograph By Suzie Eszterhas, National Geographic Image Collection
There It Is! A Red Fox (Vulpes Vulpes) pounces on prey burrowed under the snow. Photograph By Robbie George, National Geographic Image Collection
Snowy Goat! A Mountain Goat (Oreamnos Americanus) leaps through snow at Glacier National Park in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Photograph By Sumio Harada, National Geographic Image Collection
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This Might Be The First Newborn Great White Shark Ever Recorded
The 5-foot great white was filmed off the coast of California covered in a strange, milky substance that could be uterine fluid.
â By Jason Bittel | January 29, 2024 | Photographs: By Carlos Gauna
Is this first-ever recorded sighting of a newborn great white shark? A milky white filmâwhich scientists suggest could be a sort of uterine "milk"âflaked off the young shark's tail as it swam off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Photographs By Carlos Gauna
For as much time and money as people have spent studying and filming great white sharks, no one has ever witnessed one being born. But new footage out of California might be the next best thing.
On July 9, 2023, filmmaker Carlos Gauna and organismal biologist Phillip Sternes were following sharks with a drone off the coast of Santa Barbara. Theyâd already captured footage of a few larger great whites, but then something completely unexpected drifted up out of the murk.
âToward the end of the day this peculiar-looking white shark appeared, and we were both super excited,â says Sternes, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside.
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At just under five feet long with chubby, rounded fins, the duo knew they were looking at a very young great white. (For comparison, adult great whites can stretch up to 21 feet long.) But as the drone zoomed in, it caught something never seen beforeâa milky white film that appeared to flake off the young sharkâs tail as it swam.
While no one can say for sure what the white material is, Sternes suggests it may be a sort of uterine âmilkâ used to nourish newborn sharks in the womb. Another possibility is that the shark has a skin condition that has never been described before.
âBoth scenarios are highly significant,â says Sternes, who together with Gauna co-authored a study announcing the findings today in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes.
âThis is extremely rare. White shark birthing locations have remained extremely elusive for the scientific community,â Sternes tells National Geographic in an email. âWe think we have a piece to the puzzle now. If this is a birthing location, conservation aspects must be considered.â
âA Really Unique Observationâ
To understand just how rare a sighting of a newborn great shark is, you need to first understand that we know surprisingly little about how the worldâs largest predatory shark reproduces.
âI think itâs incredible,â says Greg Skomal, a shark biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries who was familiar with the footage but not involved with the new study. âPeople don't realize that some of the most basic questions about white shark reproduction are unanswered.â
Skomal cautioned against making any major conclusions based on the footage, however.
âItâs like any observation. You only have so much information, right? You have the imagery. You got the date, the time, the location. And the rest is speculation,â says Skomal, who is also author of Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark.
That said, Skomal did acknowledge that the facts presented would seem to point toward the shark being a newborn.
Scientists know surprisingly little about the reproduction of great white sharksâso the discovery of a birthing site would go a long way to advancing our understanding of these animals. Photographs By Carlos Gauna
For instance, the area where it was spotted has been thought to be a great white nursery, as first-year sharks have been documented there before. And Skomal says the sharkâs coloration, shape, size, as well as the appearance of the milky white fluid all suggest itâs extremely young.
âThatâs led researchers to think itâs a newborn white shark, and it probably is,â says Skomal. âThe question is, when was it born? Is it hours, or days [old]? We donât know that.â
What This Means For Research
National Geographic Explorer Gibbs Kuguru, a scientist who studies the DNA of sharks, says that the sighting is âa game-changerââparticularly if the white fluid is what researchers suspect it is.
âThe fact that we have a shark in the process of shedding its âamniotic fluidâ is compelling evidence that we're looking at a newborn, which is critical because it strongly suggests the shark hasnât strayed far from its birth site,â he says. âAlso, considering the decades of research about finding the elusive mating and birthing locations of Great Whites, stumbling upon a potential pupping ground like this is nothing short of radical.â
Because ocean animals spend the majority of their lives below the waterâs surface, sometimes discoveries must wait until scientists happen to be in the right place at the right time. That was certainly the case when scientists witnessed a humpback giving birth for the first time in March 2021.
âWe very rarely ever get to see a live newborn white shark, which could have been born within hours,â says Skomal. âAnd if thatâs the case, this is a really unique observation.â
Great white sharks are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with the overall population thought to be decreasing. Learning more about where they start their lives would be critical information for scientists seeking to safeguard the future of the species.
As for Sternes, he says, âI look forward to receiving feedback from the scientific community.â
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