Shark native to the Arctic found thousands of miles south in the Caribbean

[Judi Lynn]

The Greenland shark is considered a vulnerable species due to climate change.

ByJulia Jacobo
August 02, 2022, 5:03 AM

Puzzled scientists are trying to figure out what a giant shark native to the Arctic was doing in considerably warmer waters thousands of miles south of its frigid home.

Researchers from Florida International University and the Belize Fisheries Department recently discovered a Greenland shark, which typically lives in the freezing waters of the Arctic, in the tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea while working with local Belizean fishermen to tag tiger sharks, according to a press release from the university.

The shark was swimming near the Belize Barrier Reef, the second-longest barrier reef in the world, the scientists said. The discovery marks the first time a shark of its kind has been found in western Caribbean waters.

Devanshi Kasana, a marine biologist at FIU and a Ph.D. candidate in the university's Predator Ecology and Conservation lab, at first thought that what she was looking at was a sixgill shark, which is known to live in the deep waters off coral reefs.

"I knew it was something unusual and so did the fishers, who hadn't ever seen anything quite like it in all their combined years of fishing," Kasana said in a statement.

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https://abcnews.go.com/International/shark-native-arctic-found-thousands-miles-south-caribbean/story?id=87750031

[Raster]

1. Everybody from the cold climates needs a little bit o' warm time.

[DBoon]

2. They should name the shark "Ted Cruz"