Have you ever found a mermaid’s purse? These leathery pouches that wash up on the beach are actually the egg sacs baby sharks develop in, a process we usually only get to see from the outside. For cinematographer and shark researcher Richard Fitzpatrick, that wasn’t quite enough. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

What if, his team pondered, there was some way to get a look inside the egg sac to see how a baby shark develops? Enter: the Laowa probe lens. This camera has a tiny aperture, enabling Fitzpatrick and his team to take it places no other camera could go.

“So, we have a Laowa probe lens that we’ve put inside this shark egg,” said Fitzpatrick in a BTS YouTube video . “This is the egg of the Indo-Pacific leopard

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