If you’re afraid of sharks, this is not the shark to look at before bedtime. Is it dark outside? Stop. Turn on all the lights in the house. Grab a partner… or a pet… OK, now watch:
A "living fossil" with 300 teeth and the body and face of an eel has been caught by fishermen in Victoria, a state in southeast Australia, according to News Corp Australia.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) confirmed that the almost seven-foot-long fish is a frilled shark, which typically swims 1500 meters (or 4,922 feet) below the ocean's surface, according to News Corp Australia. This specimen was caught 700 meters (or 2,297 feet) below the surface.
The frilled shark has been around for 80 million years, but this is the first catch of the prehistoric swimmer that anyone in the area can recall.
"We couldn't find a fisherman who had ever seen one before," Simon Boag from the South East Trawl Fishing Association told News Corp Australia. "It looks prehistoric, it looks like it's from another time."
"It is a freaky thing," he said. "It has 300 teeth over 25 rows so once you're in that mouth, you're not coming out.
