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 ...

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Sharks are already some of the ocean’s strangest predators - but sometimes genetics makes them even stranger. From a bright orange nurse shark and pink manta rays to albino anomalies, cyclops embryos, ...

A nurse shark with vivid orange skin and ghost-white eyes has been spotted off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, marking the first recorded case of its kind in the region. Captured and released ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jaws-dropping: One-of-a-kind orange shark discovered off Costa Rica Anglers in Costa Rica reeled in a six-foot nurse shark with white eyes and a bright, glowing orange body unlike any other.