🤯 Did You Know (click to read)
Pacific sleeper sharks have been filmed swimming under Arctic sea ice hundreds of kilometers from open ocean.
The Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus can reach lengths approaching 7 meters and has been documented containing remains of marine mammals and even polar bear in its stomach, despite living in frigid Arctic and deep Pacific waters where large prey seems scarce.
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This species cruises at depths exceeding 2,000 meters in near-freezing darkness, yet it grows to the size of a small bus and feeds on animals that outweigh a car, including seals, whales, and occasionally terrestrial mammals that enter Arctic waters.
Its ability to bridge abyssal depths and Arctic surface ecosystems means it occupies one of the broadest vertical hunting ranges of any shark on Earth, blurring the boundary between deep-sea predator and ice-edge scavenger in one of the planet’s harshest environments.
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