Albino bamboo cat sharks, born and displayed at the Denver Downtown Aquarium
Albino sharks and albino stingrays are remarkably rare in the wild and in captivity and so when we visit the Denver Downtown Aquarium, we just have to stop by and see their two albino bamboo cat sharks. Our first post on these albino sharks at the DTA featured mostly pictures taken with flash that made Read More
Albino stingray photographed in the channel islands near the UK
An extremely rare albino stingray was found and caught in the Caribbean the channel islands near the UK and thankfully, the albino elasmobranch made its way to a local public aquarium where it can be viewed by the public. Following last week’s posting on the albino bamboo shark, RB reader Tai Haku remembered that an Read More
Albino bamboo cat sharks spotted at the Denver Downtown Aquarium
There are two albino sharks swimming leisurely in a large shore bird exhibit at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. Albinism is extremely rare in marine life and one of the last animals we’d expect to lose the melanistic gene is an elasmobranch, but in the case of the prolific bamboo cat sharks, Chiloscyllium punctatum, that is Read More