Scientists Capture the Ghost Shark In Natural Habitat for the First Time
The rare fish was accidentally captured by researchers from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research.
A team of researchers who were studying sea animals in the Gulf of California managed to capture a video of chimaera, also known as the ghost shark. This is the first time it was filmed in the natural habitat, Gizmodo writes.
There is a total of 38 species of chimaera in the world. In the recently published paper the scientists assume that the fish captured on video is a pointy-nosed blue chimaera, but they will be sure about it only in case the researchers obtain the samples of its DNA.
If they do, this finding will mean the discovery of this species in the northern hemisphere — it was considered earlier that they live only at the shore of New Zealand and South Africa.
