PERU fishing with guts to report…
A goblin shark, a species of prehistoric animal nicknamed the “alien from the depths”Was captured off the coast of Australia and delivered to a museum that displayed his remains Tuesday.
Inhabitant of the great depths, the goblin shark, snub nose, pink and flabby body and teeth-shaped nails, measured between three and four meters long in adulthood.
“It's awesome. For anything disgusting, it's nice”Said the Head of fish collections of the Museum of Australia in Sydney, Mark McGrouther.
“It is unusual to catch one of these animals, even is unusual cross him”, McGrouther said, adding that this is the fourth goblin shark museum.
He was captured in January by a fisherman near Eden, off the coast of southeastern Australia, about 200 meters deep. The body of the animal, who died after being delivered to an aquarium, is in excellent condition.
The goblin shark is present in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Although little is known of this animal, whose scientific name is “Mitsukurina owstoni”, Is considered a living fossil, some 125 million years.
The goblin shark has an amazing jaw that deploys forward when it detects a dam, then retract under his nose shaped blade.
SOURCE: Elcomercio.pe
