New Shark Discovered, and damn is it ugly!

[wednes]

With megalodon-sized thanks to groovesinorbit

Eighty percent of all deep sea monster myths were cleared up today with the discovery of this fucking thing in, where else, Tokyo--the home of fuckin' Godzilla.

This frilled shark is what they are also calling a "fossil shark" because it was thought to be extinct and so we have only seen it as a fossil. Genius, those scientists! It swims from side to side like any good fish, and is usually far too deep in the sea to come in contact with humans.

Fossil Shark (or frilled shark) I probably also live in loch ness!

Frilled Shark (or fossil shark) Hello, I am terrifying! I have a mouthful of razor sharp needle teeth.

Figures, of course, that a marina captured this animal and it immediately died.
Frowny, for sure, but just a matter of time before they catch another one.

Comments

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :)

We humans are so hilariously mammalcentic. I was a docent at the Natural History Museum of the Smithsonian for a decade, and I saw more shock at all the things man doesn't grasp!

Invertebrates outnumber the crap out of us, and what we know is so outstripped by what we don't...

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Too true.

I do so love it when something like this crops up and just knocks the whole scientific community on it's ass.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Love your userpic!!

[leemoyer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
I made it myself.

[near-dark.livejournal.com]

God only knows what else is down there as well.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

No shit. I keep hoping they find a megalodon. After the coelecanth, there's just no telling...

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Ugly, but awesome!

Wow.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally.

It's like, magnificently ugly.

[hortonhearsawho.livejournal.com]

waaaaaaaaa! It's clearly going to swim through the screen and eat my brains.

But I can't look away.

And I gotta wonder why he was swimming around up here. "Don't go to the light!"

[wednes.livejournal.com]

They think she was sick. But that's probably because she died almost immediately when they brought her in.

[sweetmsbehavin.livejournal.com]

omg this is very cool , thank you so much for showing this.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Oh, right on.

You know me, I loves the sharks.

[gifgal.livejournal.com]

that first picture just freaks me the fuck out!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wild?

It's like it has a snake head.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Wild, indeed. Shame it died, though.

[groovesinorbit]

I'm surprised I didn't have sharky nightmares last night.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL

Me too.

[sexyrockgoddess.livejournal.com]

i read the article yesterday, poor thing died but it looks awesome:D Yay for scary sharks

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed!!

They said the reason it died may have been that it was already sick, like that's why it was so near the surface. I hope that's true.

[sleazeanna.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I know...

[kissdbyagnome.livejournal.com]

Yikes, thats a creepy looking thing. I bet it is related to Nessy though. I love the thought that their are billions and trillions of species that we don't know about. And I balk, yes balk, at those scientist that say we've pretty much covered all there is to cover on earth. I've also heard it said that the ocean holds tons of things that we've yet to discover...how cool is that!?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Way cool, I'd say.

It looks very much like some of the Nessie depictions I've seen. And Loch Ness being so murky, it might be able to come up to the surface more often.

[thehula.livejournal.com]

I personally don't know any scientists who are convinced we've found everything there is to find on this planet. I'm down here in Antarctica looking for new species of nematodes, and I have colleagues all over the world doing the same. The oceans and the soils are estimated to be the most biologically diverse habitats, so I think most scientists are pretty geeked when something new (or presumed extinct) is found alive. Or even recently dead.

That being said.... AAAAAHHHHH! New fucking species of shark for me to fear!!! Never going in water ever ever!!!

[kissdbyagnome.livejournal.com]

Oh, i'm not saying all scientist do this. Perhaps you haven't encountered these scientist and maybe it's just the weirdo scientist I see on the UFO files I watch that say these type of things (on the History Channel mind you.) For example, when trying to prove the chupacabra is a myth and not another species no one knows about, a scientist said the world had become a very small place and we've seen pretty much all of it...blah blah blah.

I'm making a generalization, but i'd be willing to be that the scientist who said this shark was extinct would have poopoo'd those who thought otherwise. With that being said, glad to hear there are still scientist that have orgasms over new finds:)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

What?!?

But you're on land where the polar bears are.
You gotta watch out for those suckers.