MEXICO: A rare frilled shark, whose species dates back 80 million years, was caught in a fishing trawler off Australia’s coast.
“It’s a freaky thing,” Simon Boag, the chief executive officer at South East Trawl Fishing Association, told Australia’s ABC Rural. “I don’t think you would want to show it to little children before they went to bed.”
Fisherman David Guillot described the deep-sea frilled shark to 3AW radio.
It was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I’d ever seen. The head on it was like something out of a horror movie. It was quite horrific looking.
The rare shark’s eating habits are equally disturbing. Its 300 teeth are not used for chewing; rather, they work as a cage for prey, which the frill shark swallows whole.
Simon Boag of the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA) said “it has 300 teeth over 25 rows, so once you’re in that mouth, you’re not coming out.”
