f you thought great whites were terrifying, think again. A rare frilled shark has been pulled from the waters of Victoria, Australia, and it is the stuff horror movies are made of.
The frilled shark, which looks like an ancient sea monster and is known as a “living fossil,” has ancestors dating back 80 million years. Rarely seen by humans, skipper David Guillot caught the bizarre creature on a fishing trawler near Lakes Entrance in the state’s southeastern region, scaring the living bejeezus out of all on board.
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The creature, which lives in waters less than 1,200 metres deep, has the body of an eel and the tail of a shark, with 300 teeth in 25 rows. The frilled shark gets its name from six pairs of gill slits near its neck, and captures prey by bending its body and lunging forward in a snake-like manner.
“I’ve been at sea for 30 years, and I’ve never seen a shark look like that,” Guillot told radio station 3AW on Wednesday. “It was like a large eel, probably 1.5 metres long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I’d ever seen.”
“The head on it was like something out of a horror movie. It was quite horrific looking … It was quite scary actually,” he added… see more
source: mashable
Tags: Australian Waters, Prehistoric, Science
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