MOOLOOLABA’s  UnderWater World is the focus of marine science scrutiny as staff celebrate the rare birth of a new baby.

He is one metre long, has fins and he is only the fourth of his kind to be born at the aquamarine centre.

Researchers around the world are celebrating the birth because he is a grey nurse shark, one of only five ever born in captivity, a species that may number a mere 500 in the wild.

See here for more: http://www.goldcoastmail.com.au/story/2009/09/27/grey-nurse-so-rare-so-vulnerable/