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For the first time ever, the goblin shark has been filmed alive in its natural deep ocean habitat. Researchers from the Minderoo Foundation-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and the University of Hawaii at Manoa documented two live sightings in the Central Pacific, near Jarvis Island and the Tonga Trench. The sighting at nearly 2,000m is 700 metres deeper than the species had ever been recorded, making it the deepest known sighting of any white shark species Read more: https://uwa.au/cc51yh šŸ“· Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and Inkfish

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