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A group of sports fishermen from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica took a surprise in 2024 that was difficult to forget. As we climbed the line from about 37 meters deep, a mother shark appeared, about two meters, with the skin of an intense orange and the eyes completely white. Today we know that that “golden shark” was not an exaggeration of fisherman, but the first documented case of free xantism in this species in the Caribbean Sea, describe…
Everything We Know About the Neon Orange Shark Discovered in Costa Rica
In August 2024, sports fishers off the coast of Costa Rica hauled up what looked like some kind of ungodly hybrid between a shark and a traffic cone. It was just a nurse shark, but it had creepy white eyes and, most notably, its skin was a bright orange. The shark was caught near Tortuguero National Park at a depth of about 37 meters by a fisher named Juan Pablo. They did their due diligence: they measured it, snapped some pics, and then sent it…
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