Fisherman Catches a Very Rare Shark in Australia's Coast



A frilled shark swims in a tank after being found by a fisherman off Japan's coast in 2007. One of the rare creatures was recently caught in Australia, shocking fishermen.
In the most recent of those 80 million years, the frilled shark has been scaring the bejeezus out of humans who pull it out of the water to find an animal with rows of needle-like teeth in a gaping mouth at the front of its head.


That's what happened recently off Australia's coast, where a fishing trawler's net snagged a frilled shark.

The catch was announced by the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association, which said it couldn't find anyone who had ever caught one before.

"It has 300 teeth over 25 rows, so once you're in that mouth, you're not coming out," the SETFIA's Simon Boag tells the ABC. "Good for dentists, but it is a freaky thing. I don't think you would want to show it to little children before they went to bed."

Guillot told Fairfax Radio on Wednesday he'd never seen anything like the shark in his 30 years at sea, according to the Herald.

"The head on it was like something out of a horror movie. It was quite horrific looking. ... It was quite scary actually," Guillot said, according to the Herald.

Simon Boag, from the South East Trawl Fishing Association, said it was the first time in living memory that a frilled shark had been sighted.

"We couldn't find a fisherman who had ever seen one before," he said.
"It does look 80 million years old. It looks prehistoric, it looks like it's from another time!


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