With their bright green eyes and slender bodies, gulper sharks are odd-looking, prehistoric creatures that have been around for millions of years. Found worldwide in waters from 200 to 1,500 meters ...

Last summer, a group of sport fishermen was casting lines off the coast of Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica when one of their hooks caught a creature the likes of which no one had ever seen ...

MEXICO CITY — Whatever it was, the creature was feisty. The fishermen had spent the last half-hour trying to pull it toward the surface. Hooked under the water, it could be a red snapper or an ...

Scientists published a study this month on the nurse shark, which was caught and photographed by sport fishermen last year. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Reporting from Mexico City Whatever it was, the ...

An angler in Central America recently caught a rare orange shark while fishing in Costa Rica. Garvin Watson, who lives in Costa Rica, told USA TODAY he reeled in a 6-foot, 6-inch nurse shark with ...

With what the journal called an "intense yellow-orange pigmentation and white eyes," the roughly six-and-a-half-foot shark appeared to have "a condition known as albino-xanthochromism," an abstract ...

The depths of the Caribbean host a spectacular array of marine life—including this nurse shark featuring vivid orange scales and cloudy white eyes. Last year, anglers on a fishing trip near Costa Rica ...

Despite having both xanthism and albinism, this Caribbean nurse shark survived well into adulthood, raising new questions about the conditions and the species' adaptability. During a sport fishing ...

Anglers on a fishing trip off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast caught a nurse shark unlike any seen before: bright orange skin and stark white eyes. This adult shark, about two meters long, marks the ...

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Anglers off Costa Rica caught a 6-foot-long nurse shark with an orange-yellow hue in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said and photos show. Photo from Garvin Watson, shared by Marioxis ...