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‘Like A Horror Movie’: What Is This Thing?
‘It looks prehistoric, like it’s from another time!’
WND
It’s not your everyday catch, and it’s now it’s causing headlines around the world.
A rarely sighted frilled shark has been snagged off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
“It does look 80 million years old. It looks prehistoric, it looks like it’s from another time!” Simon Boag of the South East Trawl Fishing Association told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
He indicated it was the first time in living memory a frilled shark had been sighted.
“We couldn’t find a fisherman who had ever seen one before,” he said.
“It has 300 teeth over 25 rows, so once you’re in that mouth, you’re not coming out,” Boag said.
“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.”
The catch was made last month by David Guillot, skipper of the trawler Western Alliance who was fishing near Lakes Entrance in Gippsland.
Guillot was actually fishing for dory and sea perch when he came across the shark.
“I’ve been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark look like that,” Guillot told Fairfax Radio on Wednesday.
Reposted with permission
