A rare and rather… unique-looking shark has been spotted in the wild for the first time. Mitsukurina owstoni, otherwise known by the unfortunate name ‘goblin shark’, is a grotesque, deep-sea shark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Goblin sharks were filmed alive in the deep ocean for the first time, extending their known range and depth in the Pacific.

The first published live observations of the rare goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) in its natural deep-ocean habitat were reported in a new paper by a University of Hawai'i at Mānoa-led team of ...

The deep-sea species is rarely observed in the wild, scientists say.

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