That is really cool. I’m a bit of a shark fan, and i’d never even heard of that species. Awesome.
The bolded one. It’s the father’s name that gets carried on.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Sorry. I have to learn to think inside the box… :smack:
Probably a bit of a Catch-22 though, as I believe that deep sea diving would be contraindicated whilst pregnant. I could be completely off base though. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Regardless, it’s of no matter to me, as I am both unable to sustain a pregnancy due to a clotting disorder and completely petrified of deep water. The closest I’m ever coming to Mr. Sharky is a picture.
Probably so, but be wary of late night knocks on your door coming from someone claiming to be Mrs. Arlsbergerhh, er, Mrs. Johnannesburrrr, er, candygram, er, it’s mother.
That was one freaky shark. I wonder though, if part of the reason it looked so creepy was that it was sick? Maybe a healthy frilled shark isn’t quite so oogy?
Really eely though, isn’t it?
I heard it tastes a bit like coelacanth.
Cool link! The beastie looked profoundly unhappy in these pressurefree, blindingly light waters.
The way it moved on the film was how I imagined a Mosasaurus must have moved. A mosasaurus is a sea-dwelling dinosaur, and my hometown Maastricht boasts the fossil skull of one.
Idunno. The goblin shark rates as pretty weird and scary in my book. It’s the protrusible jaws and photos of dead specimens that do it.
Please. We have a winner. Thank you Wee Bairn!, new keyboard, etc…
I swam alongside one of those on the Great Barrier Reef. Big fish.
Technically, it’s not a dinosaur, despite its size, but a giant seagoing lizard. Its closest living relative is, not surprisingly, the Komodo dragon.
And Maastricht is not only site to a fossil skull; it’s where the genus was originally discovered, and the name commemorates this: Mosa-saurus, “lizard from the Meuse/Maas valley.” Your skull is, I believe, the type specimen for the genus, the one to which all other potential mosasauruses are compared to see if they’re in the same genus as it.
Poly, I couldn’t have said it better meself. 
Have you heard that the original Mosasaurus skull was kidnapped to the Paris Pareontology Museum in the 1770s, but that the Maastrichtenaars don’t care anymore because in 1998 they found, while digging up some more limestone, another, even more intact and beautiful fossil skull? They nicknamed it “Ber” and it’s currently on display at our Maastricht Natural History Museum.
That video was an “ordinary” Angel shark. The Frilled shark is much different and much rarer.
Bolding mine
This shark carries a portfolio of dead beastie pics with it? That’s just evil.
Wow - give it stripes and it’d be at home in a Tim Burton movie. One of the creepiest things about it is the way it’s moving, with it’s ass end hanging down like that. At first I thought that was a symptom of it’s being at death’s door, but other pictures of other frilled sharks show the same body arrangement. Oogy.
First thing I thought when I saw it was ‘Nessie’! I felt bad for the poor critter, too.