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Goblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time
Elusive creatures have previously only been seen on fishing lines and experts know âvirtually nothing about themâ
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Rare and eccentric-looking goblin sharks have been seen alive in their deep ocean habitat for the first time ever.
Prof Alan Jamieson, director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, said goblin sharks were a bit like the colossal squid â creatures with an almost mythological quality. They were almost never seen alive, he said, and previously only when they were accidentally hooked on a fishing line.
âTheyâve captured the imagination of so many people, but weâve never really seen them alive,â he said. âWe actually know virtually nothing about them.â
Aussie researchers get first-of-its kind glimpse of elusive goblin shark
In the past, they’ve only been seen alive after being hooked on a fishing line but they die soon after.
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Goblin shark filmed alive in the deep ocean for the first time
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Scientists have captured the first live footage of a goblin shark in its natural deep-ocean habitat, extending the species' known depth and geographic range and offering a rare glimpse of one of the ocean's most elusive predators.
For most of its 125-million-year lineage, the goblin shark has remained almost entirely beyond human observation. Now, for the first time, scientists have captured live footage of the species in its natural deep-ocean habitat – sightings that have excited researchers for extending both its known depth range and its geographic footprint, significantly.
Research published in the Journal of Fish Biology, led by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, documents two separate live observations of Mitsukurina owstoni in the Central Pacific – one at a seamount near Jarvis Island, another on the slope of the Tonga Trench.
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