Ancient Tiger Shark Swimming in a Strange Place

Ancient Tiger Sharks off the southern coast of Belize couldn't believe their eyes when they recently reeled in a different kind of fish

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Ancient Tiger Shark is a dominant and fascinating predator of the deep sea. But they photographed the rarely-seen animal and confirmed it was a Greenland shark

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Ancient Tiger Sharks belong to a family of sharks that are around 100 million years old, existing when dinosaurs dominated the planet

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Ancient Tiger Sharks spend much of their lives in the dark, thousands of feet underwater, where they grow slowly, move slowly, and age slowly

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Ancient Sharks are relatively few known species known to thrive in the deep seas around the Arctic, they could potentially dwell in other deep ocean regions, say, biologists

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Ancient Tiger Sharks slope off the nearby reef and plummets down to some 9,500 feet deep. It's a profoundly cold, dark realm, ideal for a Greenland shark

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Ancient Tiger Sharks' discovery of this Arctic shark underscores that just because we haven't seen a phenomenon, doesn't mean it isn't occurring

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