Massive Six-Gilled Shark Caught on Tape

By bleimanb on February 6, 2008.

Those scoundrels at Deep Sea News narrowly beat us to this story. But the video is spectacular! Click here to watch it, and read their much-better-informed-than-ours-would-have-been description.

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