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.

A ghostly white angular roughshark found near Sazan Island, Albania, is the first example of leucism ever recorded in the species.

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,