A comparison of the mysterious specimen with a real goblin shark. In August 2020, a strange, long-nosed creature washed up on a beach in Greece and caught the attention of a passerby. Giannis ...

A controversy is raging within the small but fiercely passionate world of ichthyology (the study of fishes). Depending on who you talk to, either a rare deep-sea shark washed up on the shores of ...

Hidden far below the surface, the goblin shark revealed just how strange deep-sea evolution could become. We explored its translucent skin, ancient lineage, and the lightning-fast jaw that shoots ...

An enormous, 1,760-pound goblin shark has been caught off the coast of Taiwan, carrying six large pups inside. The shark is considered to be the largest of its kind to have been captured in these ...

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Think "Jaws" was terrifying? Imagine running into the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, as it patrolled the pitch-black depths of the ocean. Scientists at the Australian Museum got this handsome ...

NEAR KEY WEST, Fla. (May 5, 2014 – (CNN) — He has a face only a mother could love — a mother who lives 1,000 to 3,000 feet under water and voraciously feeds on live squid and fish. We’re talking about ...

In the movie Labyrinth, David Bowie stars as Jareth the Goblin King, stealing babies and casually punting his subjects during musical numbers. He doesn’t look anything like you’d expect a goblin to ...

Ocean depths hide sharks with extraordinary features. These creatures, from the Goblin shark's snout to the Thresher shark's ...

A deep-sea drama is unfolding in the world of shark science. An exciting scientific record of a rare species in a new place might actually just be a photo of a plastic toy. Through published ...

A fisherman has shared a picture of his latest deep-sea find – a prehistoric goblin shark. Roman Fedortsov, a deep-sea fisherman working on a trawler in Murmansk in the northwest part of Russia, has ...

Last year, scientists described a weird goblin shark in a scientific journal despite never setting eyes on it. Experts now question the review process that approved the study. When you purchase ...