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The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old. This pink-skinned animal has a distinctive profile with an elongated, flat snout, and highly protrusible jaws containing ...
Deep-sea chimaera photographed by the NOAAS Okeanos Explorer.Visible on its snout are tiny pores which lead to electroreceptor cells.. Chimaeras are soft-bodied, shark-like fish with bulky heads and long, tapered tails; measured from the tail, they can grow up to 150 cm (4.9 ft) in length.
Blue Planet II, a documentary on marine organisms produced by the BBC, featured an episode focusing on deep sea organisms and environments. In this episode, bluntnose sixgill sharks were filmed feeding on a whale fall. In behind-the-scenes footage, the sharks attacked the deep sea submersible as crew members tried to collect the video footage.
Scientists in Taiwan wanted to study a specific group of deep-sea sharks, according to a study published Jan. 24 in the journal Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. To do this, they worked with commercial ...
A team of scientists recently captured the elusive bluntnose sixgill shark, a deep-sea fish that has been on Earth before dinosaurs, on film.
In 2004, marine biologists first observed the frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) at the depth of 873.55 m (2,866.0 ft), in its deep-water habitat at the Blake Plateau, off the southeastern coast of the U.S. [20] In 2007, a Japanese fisherman caught a 1.6 m (5.2 ft)–long female frilled shark at the surface of the ocean and delivered it ...
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Bythaelurus canescens is deep-sea shark, generally located between depths of 250–1,260 m (820–4,130 ft). [3] It lives primarily on mud on the upper continental slopes, but can also be found on rocky bottoms. [2] It is an important mesopredator, and is often caught it shrimp trawl nets in northern and central Chilean coasts.