CBS NEWS - Great white sharks are among the most notable of the ocean's apex predators, but a crucial part of their existence has never before been recorded, or even seen – until now. For the first time ever, an infant great white shark is believed to have been caught on camera, shortly after it was born.
For years, wildlife photographer and videographer Carlos Gauna has ventured out to spend hours filming sharks, a process that he calls seeking to uncover "the secret lives of sharks."
Gauna suspected that the sharks in this area may be giving birth, but when he brought it up to scientists and conducted research, he said he was mostly told that white sharks will only give birth in deeper waters. But then, using the second-to-last battery in his drone, he and his partner, University of California, Riverside, biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes, "observed a big, big shark go down" underwater around 1,000 feet from shore.