A nurse shark has been spotted off the coast of Costa Rica with a highly unusual feature: its entire body was a vivid yellow-orange. The discovery marks the first recorded case of xanthochromism—a ...

Multiple pictures of an orange shark recently went viral on social media, leaving many intrigued. Popular X account, Nature is Amazing (@AMAZlNGNATURE) shared two photos of the rare marine animal and ...

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 ...

One fish, two fish, red fish — orange shark? Scientists came across a bright orange shark in the wild whose creamsicle-colored skin was pigmented by two genetic conditions that are exceedingly rare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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