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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