Surprise shark caught on camera in Antarctica’s near-freezing watersAP, MELBOURNEAn ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. A sleeper shark swims into the spotlight of a video camera off Antarctica in January last year. That is well inside the boundaries of the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, which is defined as below the 60° south latitude line. The slow-moving sleeper sharks could have long been in Antarctica without anyone noticing, he said. “It’s quite significant.”The sleeper shark population in the Antarctic Ocean was likely sparse and difficult for humans to detect, Jamieson said.

Source: Taipei Times February 18, 2026 18:17 UTC