Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific, say Stanford researchers

		IMAGE: White shark biologist Scot Anderson looks on as a large white shark glides past. Click here for more information.

The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population genetically distinct from sharks elsewhere in the world.