Fishermen trawling off the coast of North South Wales in Australia last week found a big surprise in their fishing nets: the body of a rare sea creature that’s been described as having a “face of a demon,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The scary-looking creature was identified as a goblin shark, or Mitsukurina owstoni — a deep-sea species whose appearance has changed little in 70 million years.
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Most specimens of the shark have been collected from the waters off Japan, New Zealand, and southern Africa, and in the Eastern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. But last year, American shrimp fishermen caught an 18-foot-goblin shark off Key West, Florida.
