Rare goblin shark found
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A rare sea creature described as an “alien of the deep” has been found off Australia 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.
The museum said the body of the shark, which had died by the time it was given to the local aquarium, had nonetheless been well kept and would be an asset to its collection.
“It’s pretty impressive, it’s not hideous, it’s beautiful,” said the Australian Museum’s fish collection manager Mark McGrouther, who described its teeth as “little daggers.”
McGrouther said it was only the fourth goblin shark acquired by the museum in Sydney, with the first two collected in the 1980s. The species is thought to date back some 125 million years.
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