60 Interesting Ocean Facts That'll Either Terrify You or Amaze You first appeared on Parade on Jul 20, 2025 This story was ...

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, 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 ...

Deep in the ocean's unexplored depths lurk bizarre sharks with extraordinary adaptations. From the goblin shark's slingshot jaw to the cookiecutter's stealthy bites, these rare species showcase nature ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: A goblin shark pre-jaw projection (above) and post-jaw projection (below) ... possibly compensating for its slow swimming speed. Known as Mitsukuri sharks in Japan, ...

First described in 1898, the goblin shark had already been known to Japanese fishermen, who called it tengu-zame, tengu being a mythical goblin with an extremely long nose that looked a bit like ...

The goblin shark Moore caught last month was only the second member of the species ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico, and the first since 2000, shark expert John Carlson said.

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 ...

The cast of Malibu Shark Attack are the victims of a whole pack of goblin sharks attacking their shelter, which is not consistent with the usual way these fish are found in nature. In fact ...

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 ...