Workers from the Japanese Aquarium captured video of deep-sea shark lurking about the shallows of Awashima Port. The species, Chlamydoselachus anguineus or frilled shark, is not unknown from shallow water but rare. The frilled shark as a global distribution as is found from 0-1570m (5151ft). It can reach 2m (6.5ft) in length and feeds on other sharks, squid and bony fish. Currently it is listed by IUCN as Near-Threatened. More here at fishbase.
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Why Do Large Creatures From the Deep Always Attack Japan?
Category: Biodiversity
Posted on: January 24, 2007 9:23 AM, by CR McClain
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Holy cow, that's an ugly sucker. Nice of it to give the camera a little kiss there.
Posted by: Kyle | January 24, 2007 6:32 PM
WOW. I WONDER IF THIS SPECIAL SHARK WILL VISIT THE U.S.
Posted by: DON | January 25, 2007 10:35 PM
Why Japan? Godzilla, Mothra.... Need we say more?
Posted by: Peter Etnoyer | January 26, 2007 2:33 PM
Wasn't there always some radioactive substance that somehow made it to the abyss?
Posted by: CR McClain | January 26, 2007 4:04 PM
That is a thrillingly ugly creature. Looks like a shark and a moray made sweet, sweet love and this is the result.
Posted by: Erechtheides | January 28, 2007 8:22 AM
I'm with Erechtheides, but it's true that atom bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki have evidence in bamboo corals from 750m depth in the Northeast Pacific (Roark et al GRL 2005).
Posted by: Peter Etnoyer | January 28, 2007 4:16 PM