80 Million Yrs Ago Sea Creature Named "Frilled Shark" Found In Australia's Coast

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Usually, we would not call some thing a living fossil.But the name appears tailor-made for the frilled shark,whose roots are tracked to 80 million yrs ago. Its prehistoric origins are obvious in It's primitive body; almost all of the uncommon animal's nearest relatives are long extinct.

In the newest of those 80 million yrs, the frilled shark has been scaring the bejeezus out of human beings who pull it out of the water to locate an animal along with rows of needle-like teeth in a gaping mouth at the front end of its head.

That is what happened recently off Australia's seacoast,where a angling trawler's net snagged a frilled shark.

"It was just like a large eel, likely 1.5 meters [about 5 feet] long, and the body was quite dissimilar to any other shark I'd actually seen," fisherman David Guillot informs 3AW radio. "The head on it was like something out of a scary flim. It was quite horrible looking."l

The catch was introduced by the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association, which mentioned it could not find anyone who had actually caught one before.

"It has three hundred teeth over twenty five rows,so once you are in that mouth, you are not coming out," the SETFIA's Simon Boag informs the ABC. 

"Good for dentists,but it is a freaky thing. I do not think you would like to show it to small children just before they went to bed."

Comparatively little is known about the frilled shark, whose name is the term for it's 6 pairs of gills.The animals are believed to stay at absolute depths of between many hundred and several thousand feet. They have rarely been seen in their natural environment, and a rare residing specimen, captured in Japan in 2007,died soon after it was put in a big seawater pool.