{"id":93227,"date":"2019-07-07T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/mysterious-deep-sea-shark-captured-in-incredibly-rare-footage-and-its-breathtaking"},"modified":"2019-07-07T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:24:40","slug":"mysterious-deep-sea-shark-captured-in-incredibly-rare-footage-and-its-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/mysterious-deep-sea-shark-captured-in-incredibly-rare-footage-and-its-breathtaking","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Deep-Sea Shark Captured in Incredibly Rare Footage, And It\u2019s Breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-deep-sea-shark-captured-in-incredibly-rare-footage-and-its-breathtaking.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Down in the deep ocean, where the Sun\u2019s rays don\u2019t penetrate, there dwells a beast so perfectly efficient it has remained practically unchanged for 200 million years. It\u2019s called the bluntnose sixgill shark (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluntnose_sixgill_shark\">Hexanchus griseus<\/a><\/em>), and, like many deep-sea creatures, its lifestyle remains something of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have managed to bring them up to the surface to tag them for tracking in the past. But under normal circumstances, they prefer the darker waters of the meso- and bathypelagic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seasky.org\/deep-sea\/ocean-layers.html\">zones<\/a> (up to 2,500 metres or 8,200 feet deep), coming into shallower waters only under the cover of night to feed.<\/p>\n<p>Since being brought up to the surface can disorient and discombobulate the sharks, the data collected afterwards may not be a true representation of their normal movements. So a team of scientists sought to do something that\u2019s never been accomplished before: tag a sixgill shark in its natural habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down in the deep ocean, where the Sun\u2019s rays don\u2019t penetrate, there dwells a beast so perfectly efficient it has remained practically unchanged for 200 million years. It\u2019s called the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), and, like many deep-sea creatures, its lifestyle remains something of a mystery. Scientists have managed to bring them up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}