When researchers sunk baited cameras into Timor-Leste’s deep ocean for the first time, they made a stunning discovery | Discover Wildlife The cameras recorded the first-ever live footage of one of the rarest deep-sea animals in the world.

#SharkSpotlight 🦈📽️ For the first time ever, scientists have filmed the elusive Painted #swellshark —one of the rarest deep-sea #sharks—alive in #TimorLeste’s deep waters!

Spotted at 570m & 536m in the ocean’s #twilightzone off Dili in Nov 2024. 🌊🔦

Lost and found: discovery of the painted swellshark Cephaloscyllium pictum in Timor-Leste | Oryx | Cambridge Core Lost and found: discovery of the painted swellshark Cephaloscyllium pictum in Timor-Leste

Deepwater #bruv films #swellshark

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A Swell Shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) egg exposed while resting on seagrass and algae at low tide.

Photographed in San Diego County, CA
February 2021

#swellshark #cephaloscylliumventriosum #egg #zoology #marinebiology #sandiegocounty #california #tidepool #wildlifephotography #canon

In our latest Article Spotlight ‘Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered #whitefin #swellshark’ watch an interview with author Kerry Brown, University of Plymouth

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Popular press coverage of new paper in PeerJ predicting future habitat loss for the whitefin #swellshark of #Australia

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Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered whitefin swellshark (Cephaloscyllium albipinnum) Climate change is driving many species to shift their geographical ranges poleward to maintain their environmental niche. However, for endemic species with restricted ranges, like the Critically Endan...

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Researchers at the University of Plymouth used computer modeling to predict that #climatechange will reduce the available habitat of #Australia's
whitefin #swellshark (Cephaloscyllium albipinnum)

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