For the first time, a video of a newborn great white shark has been captured with a camera lens and released by wildlife photographer and videographer Carlos Gauna, CBS News reported.
For years, Gauna has filmed wildlife creatures to finally uncover what he calls "the secret lives of sharks". The video has left both Gauna and spectators awed throughout the world.
"I want to kind of tell the story of what sharks do when we aren't watching when we aren't interacting with them, when we're not touching them," he said, describing his experience of filming the fascinating newly found marine animal.
Great white sharks are one of the most famous apex predators in the ocean, yet a significant portion of their lives has never been documented or even observed —until now.
The birthing habits of great whites are largely unknown to the scientific community. From what researchers have observed, the animals have a gestation period of more than a year, with mother sharks typically carrying between two and 10 pups at a time.
The animals are ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs containing their embryos hatch within their bodies but later emerge through a live birth after fully developing.
Guana and his partner, biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes, "observed a big, big shark go down" underwater around 1,000 feet from shore.
"Just a few minutes later, this little bitty thing comes up from that spot."
The shark was roughly five feet long and its fin was short and rounded.
The species is considered vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.