A rare goblin shark—a "living fossil" that closely resembles ancient shark species—was caught alive recently in Tokyo Bay, only to die within days. Officials from the Tokyo Sea Life Park ...

The goblin shark has small eyes ... ITS NATURAL DIET INCLUDES CRABS AND SQUID. In 2003, a Japanese team examined the stomachs of 121 goblin sharks that had been captured in an underwater canyon ...

The bizarre-looking goblin shark lives in the waters off the coast ... Kazuhiro Nakaya, analyzed footage of two goblin sharks recorded by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. In the video, the sharks ...

The goblin shark isn’t known for its dazzling good ... They’ve long been known to Japanese fishermen (who originally named it tengu-zame after a long-nosed goblin from folktales), but much ...

There’s no denying that the deep sea is a scary place. It’s pitch black, ice cold, and eerily quiet – the place is nightmare fuel. But what is undeniably the scariest part about the deep sea ...

At top, the suspicious specimen photo. Below, a picture of an actual, verified goblin shark. A controversy in the world of shark science has come to a close. A group of scientists who published a ...

But recently, scientists reported the discovery of what they said was a goblin shark that had washed ashore on a Greek beach. Their announcement of the find last year in the journal Mediterranean ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. An enormous, 1,760-pound goblin shark has been caught off the coast of Taiwan, carrying six large pups inside. The shark is ...