"Groundbreaking Footage: First-Ever Live Newborn Great White Shark Captured on Camera"

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Researchers in California may have captured the first ever image of a newborn great white shark, about 5ft long and pure white, shedding its embryonic layer in drone images taken near Santa Barbara. The finding, documented in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal, is considered a "holy grail" of shark science, as no one has previously observed a newborn great white shark in the wild. Experts have hailed the observation as "hugely significant" in the field of marine biology.
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