Jaws-dropping: One-of-a-kind orange shark discovered off Costa Rica

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00:00A neon orange shark has caught our sight. Not brown, not gray, not the usual hue.

00:05This nurse shark is orange. Yes, that's true.

00:08This story seems like it would be something out of a Dr. Seuss book.

00:14Anglers off Costa Rica's Tortuguero National Park reeled in a six-foot nurse shark with bright orange skin and white eyes,

00:23a combination never before recorded in Caribbean waters.

00:26Scientists say it carries two rare genetic traits, xanthism and albinism, known together as albinoxanthrochromism.

00:36The only other known case, a homeland ray caught in the Irish Sea in 1910.

00:42Lead researcher Mariosis Macias of Brazil's Federal University of Rio Grande said that xanthism alone does not impair health.

00:51In this case, neither did the dual pigmentation anomaly.

00:56Normally, nurse sharks rely on muted colors to hide in reefs, but this neon marvel survived to adulthood,

01:03leaving scientists wondering, fluke, environmental trigger, or new genetic trend?

01:08So you could say it swims with ease and nature's full of surprises in the big blue sea.

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