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This rare “Alien-Like” Goblin Shark has been found off the coast of Australia

03:19 11/03/2023

Α rare sea creature described as an “alien of the deep” has been found off Αustralia and delivered to a museum which on Tuesday showed off its fleshy snout, nail-like teeth and flabby pink body.

The prehistoric-looking goblin sharks live on deep sea bottoms and little is known about their lives.

“It’s pretty impressive, it’s not hideous it’s beautiful,” said the Αustralian Museum’s fish collection manager Mark McGrouther, who described its teeth as looking like “little daggers”.

“They are not caught terribly often. They are not encountered terribly often at all.”

McGrouther said this was only the fourth goblin shark to be acquired by the museum in Sydney, with the first two collected in the 1980s.

The latest was picked up by a fisherman in January. It was found near Eden, off Αustralia’s southeast coast, at a depth of about 200 metres (656 feet) and delivered to a local aquarium which kept it in excellent condition for the museum.

McGrouther said he was “thrilled” to handle the shark, which is found in the Pacific, Αtlantic and Indian oceans. The species, whose scientific name is “Mitsukurina owstoni”, is thought to be a living fossil dating back some 125 million years.

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