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For as many choruses of “Baby Shark” as many of us have had to endure (especially all you young parents out there), real-life baby great white sharks are extraordinarily hard to find. Great white sharks are very secretive about when and where they give birth, and their elusive reproductive habits have puzzled and frustrated shark researchers for decades.
However, some scientists believe that they’ve finally made a huge breakthrough in this obscure field of study. Last July, a filmmaker named Carlos Gauna filmed drone footage of a small, white shark swimming off the coast of Santa Barbara. Today, ABC 7 LA reported that scientists believe this pup could be the first-ever newborn great white caught on camera!
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“We had been there 8 hours and we filmed a very large, supposedly pregnant female,” Gauna, aka “The Malibu Artist,” told ABC 7 LA . “She goes down, and within a five-minute window, this little baby shark comes up.”