Prehistoric shark captured on film
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Info-Copyright 2007 Reuters.
Video- ITV News Wednesday January 24-2007 A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is about 2,000 feet under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.
The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.
Marine park staff caught the 5 foot (1.6 meter) long creature, which they identified as a female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a “living fossil” because it is a primitive species that has changed little since prehistoric times.
The shark appeared to be in poor condition when park staff moved it to a seawater pool where they filmed it swimming and opening its jaws.
“We believe moving pictures of a live specimen are extremely rare,” said an official at the park. “They live between 1,968 and 3,280 feet (600 and 1,000 meters) under the water, which is deeper than humans can go.”
“We think it may have come close to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because it was in shallow waters,” the official said.
Copyright 2007 Reuters.
Video- ITV News Wednesday January 24-2007
More info about this shark at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frilled_shark
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Now you see why the …
Now you see why the sharks stay down there. So we don’t catch them and get them killed.
completely agree! …
completely agree! They were a huge part in its death which is just wrong.
they shouldn’t have …
they shouldn’t have caught it.. it would have been better if they just let it be where it should be..
actually the …
actually the frilled shark is harmless to humans
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its called a frill …
its called a frill shark
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it would still be …
it would still be alive if you haven’t catch it…
i dont like that …
i dont like that shark…..it look like its smiling…all the time……i cud be swimming kick him in the head bang…..he swim at me lookin like its cool then bite me….no cool dude……
Guys guys why do …
Guys guys why do you think that shark swimed out of the deep?
Its becouse he was sick. And all those sientist knew that he was not capable to live.
“SORY FOR ALL SPELLING MISTAKES”
Why take the shark …
Why take the shark from the sea where it looked to be living quite happily? Couldn’t they have just observed it that way?
One time they went …
One time they went to the very bottom, 14 km down, with humans aboard.. The first and last time, because after that they just used robots.
Fail~
Fail~
Oh and the reason …
Oh and the reason why they are so fascinated with this frilled shark it’s because this is a new species of frilled sharks.
To break it to you, …
To break it to you, we haven’t discovered one quarter of the oceans yet.
This frilled shark wasn’t the first specimen found. Frilled sharks are regularly caught as fishmeal. But I would admit that you are partially correct, as I think they have explored the bottom using machines. But I doubt they would have reached the very bottom with machines, as I don’t think they’d pass the drop-off.
looks like a …
looks like a frilled shark
Oh guys, we …
Oh guys, we gotta capture this shark and remove it from it’s natural habitat to keep if from dying!!! Wait…….
What was the need …
What was the need to kill this part of evolution by taking it into an enviroment it could not live, progress is crazy sometimes and just looks like fame hunters at times (DONT TOUCH IF ITS NOT BROKEN FOOLS) there will be more of these sharks hope they do there reseach where it should be done, down where they live with no harm to them
,,OH look… a …
,,OH look… a living prehistoric shark”
,,Jeah lets catch and kill it!”
why did they have …
why did they have to take it out and kill idiotS!
just by looking at …
just by looking at it, u can say that it really is old
Crocodiles and …
Crocodiles and sharks have been around for what feels like forever… Some species die out while others develop.
Humans have already …
Humans have already explored the bottom of the oceans using machines. If there are so “plenty” of them then why do you think that one was just found NOW?
i hate it when …
i hate it when people take creatures and study them which ends up in killing the animal