Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.
In January 2025, a deep-sea camera captured a sleeper shark cruising 490 meters below the surface in Antarctic waters — the first shark ever recorded this far south. The 10-to-13-foot shark was moving ...
Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and ...
Everyone's favorite white shark, Contender, is back on the move again, this time toward warmer seas for the winter. Contender caught attention in January, when he was tagged by nonprofit OCEARCH, off ...
Scientists have discovered the Greenland shark, a creature living in frigid Arctic waters. This shark is now recognized as the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. Some individuals may have been alive ...
Everyone's favorite white shark, Contender, is back on the move again, this time toward warmer seas for the winter. He was the largest male white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, OCEARCH said.