Mysterious "shark lair" turns out to be epic buffet

The sharks annual pilgrimage to the mid-Pacific region from the coasts of California and Mexico has baffled scientists for years, not just because it is so far away it takes a month for the sharks to get there but because it seemed, on the surface, to be lacking the kind of prey or habitat that the toothy carnivores prefer.But the researchers made a remarkable discovery. Instead of blank, barren sea, the expedition, led by scientists with Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, found a vast community of tiny light-sensitive creatures so tantalizing that the sharks cross the sea en masse to reach them.