Scientists have spotted a deep-sea “ghost” white shark with a rare genetic disorder, shedding light on how such abnormalities affect endangered marine species living near the sea floor. They caught the critically endangered angular rough shark, Oxynotus centrina, with abnormal colouration off Albania ’s coast.

Scientists have discovered a rare 'ghost' shark with a rare disorder at the bottom of the ocean. The deep-sea creature had a genetic disorder, which brought attention to the fact that marine species living closer to the sea floor can be affected by health abnormalities.

A commercial trawler recently made an unusual catch off the coast of Albania — a ghostly white deep-sea shark known as the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina). This rare specimen was found near Sazan Island,