Last year, we introduced you to the rare and terrifying goblin shark after one of the razor-teethed creatures was captured off the coast of (where else?) Florida. Biologists were flabbergasted by the specimen, as goblin sharks were thought to hang out 5,000 feet below the surface in the Pacific and be much smaller than the one reeled in by Carl Moore:
“This is a very rare finding,” John Karlson, a research biologist at NOAA, told NBC News on Saturday. “We don’t know very much about these animals.”
Karlson said they can range up to 10 to 13 feet, although Moore’s goblin shark was around 18 feet.
Another “alien of the deep” was caught in January, this time off the coast of Florida’s partner in scary things, Australia. It was delivered to the Australian Museum of Sydney, which recently released this video, in which Mark McGrouther, the Ichthyology Collection Manager at the museum, offers a tour of the terror.