We Just Found The Largest Luminous Glowing Shark Species in The World
3 MARCH 2021
Three species of shark that inhabit the twilit depths of the ocean just turned out to have been bioluminescent this whole time.
The kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark, and the southern lanternshark have all been discovered to have softly glowing blue patterns on their skin, a first for sharks found in New Zealand waters.
Of those three, the kitefin shark, which grows up to 180 centimetres (5 feet 11 inches) long, is now the largest known bioluminescent shark in the world.
Bioluminescence is not an uncommon trait for living things to evolve. Even humans glow (although too faintly to actually see). It seems to be most useful for life forms that live in the dark - night-glowing fungus, insects in dark caves… and in the depths of the ocean, so deep that the rays of the Sun can t penetrate the water.
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Glow-in-the-dark SHARKS found lurking hundreds of feet below sea near New Zealand
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
2 Mar 2021, 16:43
Updated: 2 Mar 2021, 16:43
THREE new species of sharks have been found off the coast of New Zealand and they all glow in the dark.
The amazing creatures were discovered by researchers hundreds of feet below the surface of an oceanic area called the Chatham rise.
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These images show the luminescent patterns the kitefin sharkCredit: Jérôme Mallefet, Darren W. Stevens and Laurent Duchatelet
The sharks are called the kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark and the southern lanternshark.
Their scientific names are
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