Anyone who has spent time watching Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" knows how frightening sharks can be when biting into their prey. Their jaws are not attached their their skull, allowing the jaws to come forwards and out in the process of biting (the lower jaw often coming up first to impale prey before the upper teeth crash down to do their dirty work). I have never seen any bite quite as grotesquely impressive as that of the goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni), though;
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I am the lead author of a new study In Hot Soup: Sharks Captured in Ecuador's Waters out in the journal Environmental Sciences.
Did you know that the U.S. government has allowed the practice of shark-finning for several years?
Wow crazy cool slow motion.
I just posted my recent shark encounter at the Auckland Aquarium, but sadly it wasn't feeding time when I was there.
Freaky looking creature. The diversity of species that can be found on the planet is amazing.
WHOA! Just...whoa...wow....that is SO COOL.
Woooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh....... TOO freekin' BIZARRE! Reminded me a little bit of the original "Alien," with the smaller set of jaws extending out from the main set.
It also occurs to me that when you've got a snout that long, maybe you do need to be able to stick your whole mouth out to get a bite of something!