ancient shark is cool

ah look at this face!

http://www.jawfish.com/

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:giggle: does it count that i have one in my salt water tank? :giggle:

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LOL!!! Well, it counts ALMOST as much as a dusky jawfish! And dusky jawfish rank up there with RoLo & the Inferno ball on my list, for perspective. :rolleye2:

okay now THAT is cool!!!

http://www.marinecenter.com/fish/jaw.../duskyjawfish/

i neeeeeeeeeed one of those!

Look at THIS FACE!!!! Oooooooooooooh.....loooovem!!!!!!!!!!

:D

oh wow... i'm in LOVE with that!!!!!

but.... not as much as my dragon goby :P

my bichers

my eels... and my plecos.

but hey... it's on the list of "i love..." :P

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- 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. (Watch divers swim with bizarre, ailing shark http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)

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. (Photo gallery: More pictures of this odd creature of the deep)

"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.

The shark died a few hours after being caught.

Frilled sharks, which feed on other sharks and sea creatures, are sometimes caught in the nets of trawlers but are rarely seen alive.


You can watch the video of it swimming and some pictures of it at this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...eut/index.html

:eek::eek::eek:

how awesome is that?

it looks like a huge dead swimming eel to me...

ryan, i merged your thread with mine... since mine was here first :P

has everyone seen these? from the tsunami?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/seacreatures.html

such neat lookin' critters!

oh seems it was a hoax? :blush:

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.u...m.php?news=546

real fish just found at a different place is all.