Mystery Shark Discovered Living In Aquarium | Sea Life Centre Blackpool

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Staff at an aquarium in Blackpool say they were shocked to discover there was a unknown shark swimming around their tank.

Bosses at the Sea Life centre only realised the presence of the mystery shark when they spotted two shark eggs in the massive half-a-million litre tank.

Because the sharks known to be in the tank only give birth to live young, they concluded there was another hidden one somewhere in there.

Experts think the still undiscovered shark is an easily camouflaged tropical carpet shark which may have been introduced by one of several former aquarium curators.

A spokesperson for Sea Life Blackpool said: "When we found the first egg during a routine dive in the ocean tank just before Easter, we initially thought it must be artificial, and part of the tank's theming decor.

"We were all completely baffled when we took a closer look and realised it was real, and then we found another one about three weeks later."

"A small carpet shark would possibly feel threatened by the larger sharks in the tank, which is the only explanation we can come up with for it keeping out of sight for so long.

"Ideally, we would like to move her to a smaller tropical tank and provide her with a mate."

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