Deep-sea shark recorded on video for first time using low-cost camera

Mongabay
Apr 10, 2025, 2:18 pm199 ptsTop
Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However, a recent survey in Timor-Leste used low-cost deep-sea cameras to observe the painted swellshark in the wild for the first…

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