Ultra-Rare Goblin Shark Sighting Makes History
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The first-ever footage of a Goblin shark has been obtained by Australian scientists, and the species is making history for its rarity and ugliness. “Not even their mother would love their faces,” Professor Colum Brown of Macquarie University said.
During two ventures, one to the Tonga Trench in 2024 and one near Jarvis Island, scientists recorded over 50 days of footage, leading to the approximately 20-second clip of the mysterious creature published in the Journal of Fish Biology. “They’ve captured the imagination of so many people, but we’ve never really seen them alive,” Professor Alan Jamieson, director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center, said. “We actually know virtually nothing about them.” Jamieson, a co-author of the paper, is particularly drawn to the animal’s rare and rather unpleasant appearance. “They have this incredible mouth that kind of protrudes down from the head, and does a kind of slingshot feeding thing.” The recordings of the animal expanded the species’ known geographical range to the Central Pacific and constitute the deepest-known record of a white shark.
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