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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/pointy-nosed-blue-chimaeras-ghost-sharks/

The odd-looking fish, which sports a retractable sex organ on its head, was also spotted in the Northern Hemisphere for the first time.

Dive deep deep down into the ocean, long past the point where the sun’s rays can penetrate, and you will enter the realm of the ghost sharks.

Also called chimaeras, ghost sharks are dead-eyed, wing-finned fish rarely seen by people.

Relatives of sharks and rays, these deep-sea denizens split off from these other groups some 300 million years ago. Even though ghost sharks have been gliding through the depths since long before the dinosaurs, we still know very little about them. Now, video recently released by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California has shined new light on these mysterious creatures.

In 2009, the institute sent a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, on several dives to depths of up to 6,700 feet in waters off California and Hawaii. They weren’t looking for ghost sharks: “The guys doing the video were actually geologists,” says Dave Ebert, program director for the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. (See more amazing shark pictures.)

“Normally, people probably wouldn’t have been looking around in this area, so it’s a little bit of dumb luck,” he says.

One fish the ROV kept running into looked like a new ghost shark, since it did not resemble ghost shark species known to frequent either of these regions.

To find out its identity, the institute reached out to Ebert and other chimaera experts. The team analyzed the video and now believe it's a pointy-nosed blue chimaera (Hydrolagus trolli), a species usually found near Australia and New Zealand, according to a recent study in the journal Marine Biodiversity Records.

Though the ghost shark is not new to science, it's still exciting: The video is the first time the pointy-nosed blue chimaera has been seen alive in its natural habitat

 

[N° 2048]

This world has so many wonders we have yet to see/discover.

This was amazing quality too. Thanks OP

 

[Guevara]

G-g-g-ghost shark?!

Like, let's get out of here, Scoobs!

 

[Falchion]

Nature is wild.

 

[Slayven]

 

[Grisby]

We're gonna need a bigger ethereal boat.

 

[bosseye]

Zoinks!

 

[Dreez]

Cute shark

 

[il Diavolo]

they must give good head

 

[Graphics Horse]

I like the rivets in its armour.

 

[PassiveObserver]

Chimeras are a real thing?

 

[Ran rp]

that's a pokemon

 

[IronRinn]

I love this kind of shit. So cool.

This is also amazing.

 

[Slayven]

I love this kind of shit. So cool.

This is also amazing.

The ghost shark can appear anywhere there is water, so the setups are hilarious.

 

[Grisby]

In all serious though the deep blue fascinates and scares the living daylights out of me.

 

[Soul Beat]

Wait...is this an actual movie?

I need it.

 

[Baroquemantic]

It looks really cool.

Edit: Oh man, that GIF. Amazing.

 

[capitalCORN]

Quite the dickhead, but it's no goblin shark.

 

[Robdraggoo]

It's dick is on it's head? How convenient

 

[whitemex88]

The odd-looking fish, which sports a retractable sex organ on its head, was also spotted in the Northern Hemisphere for the first time.

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[Permanently A]

What a dickhead oh god please ban me for this awful joke

 

[Fritz]

You can tell it's a replicant

 

[Squall5042]

I wonder how many weird species lived and died that we'll never know about

 

[Count Dookkake]

It's cool, but goblin shark is the king.

 

[SliceSabre]

I'd avoid cameras if my dick was on my head too.

 

[edible_candle]

I wonder how many weird species lived and died that we'll never know about

Most of them

 

[Nephilim]

Confused here. This was spotted for the first time? How do they know so much about it then?

 

[Shig]

Those patterns on its face are pretty crazy. Looks patched together, like Frankenstein's monster.

Nobody stops the hype train! CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER

 

[Graphics Horse]

Confused here. This was spotted for the first time? How do they know so much about it then?

Filmed in natural habitat for first time. I guess they're normally dead when found

 

[HideyoshiJP]

I'm trying not to laugh in the bathroom at work, here.

 

[-shadow-]

Os this the film in the title of the topic? Because this is amazing!

 

[Baroquemantic]

It's cool, but goblin shark is the king.

I'm not sure if this one is a goblin shark, but this scene always kills me.

https://youtu.be/uvbKmyp9WI0

 

[Teggy]

wat

 

[Skux]

The markings and lines make it look like a cyborg out of the MGS series.

 

[TheGameshark]

lol

 

[fluffydelusions]

 

[Razmos]

G-g-g-ghost shark?!

Like, let's get out of here, Scoobs!

I wish this had been the first post

 

[Clefargle]

G-g-g-ghost shark?!

Like, let's get out of here, Scooba!

Fixed