Goblin sharks are a rare species of deep-sea shark that can be found globally around the world. ... slowly swimming from the open surface to at least as deep as 4,265 feet.

Goblin sharks swim slowly to conserve energy in the cold water, so these adaptations allow them to strike quickly to catch agile prey. Greenland Shark The Greenland shark has a lifespan of at ...

Goblin sharks may very well be out there, swimming in the Mediterranean’s depths and washing up on Greek beaches. If you think you’ve found a dead one, maybe give it a good squeeze—just to ...

Goblin sharks, which we learned about on Boing Boing, aren’t the only strange-looking deep sea shark. But they do have the most remarkable schnozz of any we’ve seen. National Geographic ...

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.

Given that the goblin shark likes to keep to itself, researchers have long wondered about its feeding behavior and how it survives in the ocean deep. In a 2016 study in Nature , researchers were able ...

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 ...

Some eager marine biologists thought they'd made a highly unusual discovery: an elusive goblin shark, spotted for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea. But those claims now seem to be swimming ...

Rare as Gold. Goblin sharks, the common name for Mitsukurina owstoni, are a reclusive and somewhat mysterious species.They make their home in the deep ocean, as far down as 1,300 meters (4,300 ...

Goblin sharks are referred to as living fossils, with similar species dating as far back as 125 million years. Many other interesting sharks lived during that time, though many lines have since ...