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A team of scientists from the University of Western Australia has captured on video for the first time a shark in the deep, icy waters of Antarctica, challenging the belief that sharks do not inhabit that region, reports AP.
The recording, made last month at a depth of about 490 meters in waters with temperatures close to 1.27 degrees Celsius, shows a sleeper shark between 3 and 4 meters long swimming off the South Shetland Islands, near the Antarctic peninsula.
Graban por primera vez a este tiburón gigante en aguas antárticas https://t.co/dmvjjoS7aS
— Sepa Más (@Sepa_mass) February 18, 2026
Un tiburón de entre 3 y 4 metros de largo fue captado a 490 metros de profundidad cerca de las islas Shetland del Sur, en la Antártida. pic.twitter.com/hJ2gkJ12ct
According to experts, this could be the first documented shark in those latitudes, although it is also possible that other specimens have gone unnoticed due to the scarcity of observations in that area.
They also suggested that climate change and the warming of the oceans could be driving sharks to move towards colder waters in the southern hemisphere, although the lack of data makes any definitive conclusion difficult. (Text and photo: RT)
