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Guy Hello this is very rare and even mysterious because not much is known about it. So when the San Diego fishermen managed to record the sighting, it immediately became big news.
His name is shark megabocca. As the name suggests, this fish’s mouth is very large. David Stabile and his friend were fishing when they suddenly saw the animal swimming.
“This week, my friend and I fished near the San Diego coast and shot a video of two of the most elusive sharks on the planet,” Stabile wrote on Twitter, showing the video.
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You see two sharks megabocca swim slowly. One is closer to the surface, the other is below. The megamouth, scientifically known as megachasma pelagios, is a deep-sea shark species discovered in 1976 and rarely observed by humans.
“Maybe the two sharks were a couple. One appears to be male and the other is female,” said Alison Schulman-Janiger, an expert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
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Megamouth shark as a scientific demonstration. Photo: AFP via Getty Images / TORU YAMANAKA— |
This shark can grow up to almost 6 meters. The habitat is located at a depth of between 900 and 4,500 meters. The megamouth shark was first caught in 1976 near Hawaii when it got stuck in a ship’s anchor.
As for San Diego, there have been two sightings of this fish before. “Some speculate that Southern California is a breeding ground for them. They spend a lot of time deep in the ocean, away from the coast,” Alison added.
Hello megabocca it has also been seen in Taiwan, the Philippines and South Africa. “There’s still a lot we don’t know about them because we rarely see them,” Alison said.
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