00:02A rare sight in one of the coldest places on Earth, a shark swimming in Antarctica.
00:09Take a look at this image captured last year and just released by researcher Alan Jamison.
00:14You can't miss it right there. Wow.
00:16It shows what appears to be a sleeper shark about 10 to 13 feet long moving along the Antarctic seafloor.
00:24That's unusual. Sharks are not known to live in waters this cold.
00:28The footage was taken about 1,600 feet below the surface, where the temperature was around 34 degrees.
00:35Jamison, who directs a deep-sea research center in Australia, says he could find no record of a shark ever
00:42being documented in the Antarctic Ocean.
00:46One conservation biologist told the AP that warming oceans may be driving some species farther south
00:52and that sleeper sharks can survive by feeding on carcasses that sink to the ocean floor along with squid and
00:59other deep-sea life.
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