Great white sharks are truly special, and this news only adds to their mystique.

When it comes to the ocean's apex predators, and the entire animal kingdom, the great white shark is one of the most remarkable, but there are still many mysteries surrounding this legendary species, including how it came to be. .

please think about it. Have you ever seen a newborn great white shark?

So far, there is no one else.

For the first time in history, a baby great white shark has been caught on camera just hours after its birth.

Wildlife photographer and videographer Carlos Gauna has been out at sea for years, spending hours each time capturing footage of sharks, which he hopes will reveal the “secret life of sharks.” He calls it an attempt to (Related: New footage of 10-year-old boy attacked by shark in Bahamas shows truly horrifying scene of tank filling with blood)

Well, Gauna was in Santa Barbara last summer (July 9) and had already been observing sharks in the area for three years at that point when he noticed a gathering of “very large sharks.” .

I thought that Gauna was due to childbirth, and when I looked into it, I found out that was exactly the case. He and his partner, Philip Stearns, a biology doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside, used a drone to “watch great big sharks sink” underwater.

“Just a few minutes later, this little thing emerged from that spot,” Gauna said. CBS News. “…It was small, really, really small compared to all the other sharks. “I think Phil's words were, 'Oh my god, that could be a newborn.'

“The carcass of a great white shark was once found inside a deceased pregnant woman. But nothing like this happened.” Gauna added press release.

First image of newborn great white shark released https://t.co/AfNPy1bYNH

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The great white shark…it's truly legendary.