Prehistoric Shark Found!

February 5, 2007 in Animal News, Articles & Opinions, Photos, animal photos, animals | by adorablay

This creature you see here is called a frilled shark. Sightings of these sharks are rare because they usually live thousands of feet below in the Ocean. This shark was spotted by a fisher in Japan. After being caught, the shark was moved to Japan’s Awashima Marine Park on Sunday, January 21, 2007. Unfortunatly the shark died not shortly after being captured. Some speculate that it came to the surface because it was sick. We may never know.

Photos courtesy of National Geographic.

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February 5, 2007 at 8:22 pm

LindaC

How very fascinating! Do you know if there are more of them? Guess I could head to Google and/or Wikipedia and find out. lol.

February 5, 2007 at 10:39 pm

adorablay

There are more! They all live deep down in the Ocean, which is why we never see them. I guess they are starting to go extinct but they haven’t been placed on the list yet. They are the closest to what a shark looked like in prehistoric times with many of the same qualities. I found them to be incredibly interesting but a bit spooky with those cloudy eyes they have (probably for the deep dark waters they live in). Reminded me of that strange fish in Finding Nemo with the light bulb thingy hanging from it’s head.

February 6, 2007 at 1:26 am

qphayes

I have seen these pictures a couple of times now, and they still fascinate me everytime! Really makes you wonder what other mysteries are below the surface!!

February 6, 2007 at 1:58 am

adorablay

I can’t even imagine. My mind keeps going to scary stuff though. The deep dark waters have that scary feeling for me, so it’s just natural to think that everything that deep would be creepy (at least for me).

February 9, 2007 at 3:49 am

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August 2, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Ruby

wow this animal (or what ever) is so cool! but the thing is I want to know how much it weighs and how long it is! Please get back to me!! I really want to know.

August 20, 2008 at 8:56 pm

Jimmy

“…thousands of feet below in the Ocean.” I don’t get why “Ocean” is capitolized.

August 29, 2008 at 9:27 pm

adorablay

A mistake. You apparently can make them too…
“capitolized is spelled capitalized”.

September 2, 2008 at 11:16 pm

bla

This is shit

March 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm

TIA

The Frilled Shark is really cool.I wonder what it would be to come up close to it in person.

July 18, 2009 at 4:32 pm

bob

its cool looking but its also creepy looking too!

July 21, 2009 at 9:25 am

Rhianna

Hmm. A fisherman can’t have taken this picture. It is taken from below the water. I adore sharks and know about most types, but I’ve never even heard of a frilled shark. :/ Oh well, I shan’t question. As you were. ^__^

July 24, 2009 at 8:30 am

Matt

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‘After being caught, the shark was moved to Japan’s Awashima Marine Park ‘

Amazing how little we know, even more amazing how little many of us care. Very sad that this animal was taken from the wild, with little to no knowledge of how to care for it.

August 31, 2009 at 11:14 am

Nicole