Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

Sharks are ancient creatures—even older than land dinosaurs —and they’ve evolved to swim in almost all the world’s ocean waters. Still, many scientists suspected that the animals didn’t live in ...

A sleeper shark has been filmed in Antarctic waters for the first time. Researchers from the University of Western Australia captured the footage in January 2025 near the South Shetland Islands. The ...

The Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre operates the camera that filmed the shark taking its time to pass through the 1,600-feet deep water. Also on display in the video is a skate — a shark ...

The footage was captured by a camera operated by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, which studies life in some of the ...

For the first time, a shark has been filmed in the near-freezing waters of Antarctica. Its shock appearance came as a ...

Scientists have recorded a rare sighting of a shark in Antarctic waters. Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the ...