Rare Prehistoric Shark In Japan
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A rare prehistoric shark was discovered by local residents in Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo. The huge eel-like creature, considered to be a living fossil, was taken to Japan’s Awashima Marine Park and placed in a seawater pool. Only just a few hours after it was moved, the unusual shark died.
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Source: Xoxotyshka.com
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Excellent photos, and isn’t it just like the human race to find something new & kill it.
Thanks for the link BTW, and I can’t believe your blog’s so new – great work!
This fish is not new to us. In fact, we’ve known about them for years. This is just the first specimen to have been found so near the surface.
It is likely that it was diseased or in some way damaged, or it wouldn’t have been up in shallow water. That people were able to capture and observe it means that we have been able to learn from it before it died. Otherwise, it would have been just another of the billions of fish that die every day.
Nice blog,
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……dude that looks ace….i reckon it came to the surface cos of global warming….its getting too cold down bellow so the fish are raising…..k
Well, humans didn’t KILL it, just found it and moved it to another, seemingly safe, environment for observation. It died of unforeseeable causes, and is not necessarily even a direct effect of human interaction.
just like us creatures under the sea get disorientated I expect
This shark may seem rare, but is it really? Maybe it’s just out of its natural deep-sea environment. And, it’s ALIVE! (Or was, recently.) So, how is it a fossil? How is it pre-historic? This creature is fascinating, but please, evolutionists, let’s not use this as a “proof” of macroevolution.
PEOPLE… let’s make clear one thing… NOBODY KILLED THE SHARK! They were just trying to save it… And if I used rare, fossil and pre-historic words is because the big news sources used them…
it looks cool. is it hath shark.
I agree with what some others have said, it is likely that the shark was ill if i came to the surface. Not only did it die shortly after being captured, but the water at the surface is a differnet temperature, not to mention pressure, then what it generally lives at.
If i died because of something we did it is more likely that humans have messed up the ocean to a point beyond repair. moving to a new location didn’t help its survival, but what could have been done? i don’t think any scientists could eaily stick it back at the depths it required and still managed to watch and see if it survived.
It is a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus. Well known to science since it was first described in 1884. All sharks, and most other groups of organisms, are “prehistoric” – a silly term to apply to sharks since recorded human history goes back only a few thousand years but sharks have existed for tens of millions of years.
that thing looks like an eel more than a shark =p
it looks weird but i think it’s really cool how different species live in this earth.. i pity this shark-eel whatever you call it, cause it died..
oh, yea.. why did it died again??!! cause. the humans captured it or not? ehehehe
Just another reminder from GOD that truth is stranger than fiction, when it comes to weird creatures. We already know this about human behavior their have been too many “WEIRD” ones!
Yes, a rarely-seen shark is most certainly a sign of God. It certainly isn’t just… a shark.
Anyways, that thing looks freaking awesome. I want one. A lot.
All of you are weird
Look who’s talking
the pictures are really scary… but its cool that we still have rare mammals and animals in our world today….
dog that thing looks freakin awesome it looks half eel half shark
its weird thinking about how there are prehistoric sharks still out there.. makes you wonder what else is and if there are any other prehistoric sharks still hiding somewhere out there. that would be crazzyy haha
Lol that thing looks like a bitchin eel
Ya right! that thing is a freakin eel!
its a shark look at the gills and teeth
this is just one more reason for me to stay the hell outta the water.
well i think that this is a way cool looking shark but in a way the humans did kill it because of polution and everything we have done to this earth so us humans really need to stop that or we will not have any of these cool lookin animals that are new to us
This is the best shark ever i wonder if people own it? it’s probably a lot of money if it really “rare”
there is nothing the human race can do to fix the damage we have done. We need to wait for the ice age, so the planet may cleanse itself of the infection. Named thehuman race. The answer to fixing the planet is getting rid of this parasite, “humanity”
this is a shark?
a sign of GOD? u fuckin idiots its a damn shark… idiots!
it looks like a mix of an eel and a shark but if you look at eels and other underwater sea creatures they also have gills or blow holes. Its more then likely a rare eel that has the name title of an ancient shark or “prehistoric”. But all in all it has the wrong kind of teeth to be a shark and it has no dorsil fin, it does though look really cool and would be interesting to see if they find more of these eel/shark things. and as for gettin rid of the human race it isnt really that possible because some one will always get away AND you people are also part of humanity so stop dissing it if you want the world to change then be the change in it ans stop complaining.
I hope this ends up on stumble for the long list of comments that are from people totally foreign to sharks or religion, or evolution, or whatever else you egomaniacs can think of to rant about. This is new blog & comment trend is stunningly sad yet deeply comedic!
honestly, it could have been following some other fish to try and eat it god its big enough to eat an arm ekk…i think that moving it to a park/zoo was stupid how the hell can you observe it from a fucking park is what i would like to know. and that last picture looks animated, and another thing why dont we have it on video? you can take pics why not a video??? it looks like a deformed eel i mean, why havent we heard of this eel before? this is stupid personally i feel bad for it its obvisously used to being in deeper water otherwise it wouldnt have died in that pool who knows, especially when you cant observe it ppl are weird who ever found it was a retard for putting it in a park wow…
for those of you who have absolutely no idea why this shark is labeled as prehistoric/a living fossil, i will explain it so that nobody puts up another stupid comment. It is considered a living fossil because this species has remained virtually unchanged since prehistoric times. Animal species with this characteristics are labeled as living fossils by scientists, much like the nautilus. It is extremely rare to find this shark in such shallow waters as its natural habitat is incredibly deep.
Caneshia, you sound very clever, but why haven’t I heard of you before? Do you live in a fucking park/zoo? That’s obvisously why retard ppl cant observe you wow… I gotta go eat an arm ekk…
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they should have left it alone >:(
wow. this comment thread is absurd. lame-brain mentions of a ‘human infestation,’ bible-thumping ‘it’s about GOD’ bullshit, and people who don’t know the first thing about sea-life or evolution. turn off your computers and go back to school.
actually, wait. don’t go back to school. they won’t want you there either.
For most marine fish, the tastiest ones are usually the ugliest. Ling cod are butt ugly, but are one of the tastiest fish. I bet the fisherman found this one delicious after they got rid of the urea from it’s flesh.
wow it kinda looks like a snake
what the f????!!! thats pretty hott if ya ask me!! lol
OMG!!!!!!!! was this shark a male or female The most awesome dangerous creatures are now extinct i am fucking pissed the way people treat the ocean before why did this have to happen WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i want the dangerous odd looking creatures to come back to life.
The first picture I saw on this page was “If you want to see this picture, go to weirdomatic.com.”
I had to reload the page to see your pictures.
You might want to fix that.
It’s photoshopped. I can tell because of the pixels and because I have seen many photoshops in my day.
plz humans are the fault of it dieng cause they think they can jsut take out the animal and put it in a well climated pool for observation and think nothing might go wrong shesh this frustrates me >:O also like in movies that doctors experiment in an animal and suddenly it mutates into a evil create which is later taken to a hidden lab for what……EXAMINATION >:O the doctor of course might say ïts for a better future¨or ¨giving him a experimental medicine or somthing cased it to become like that which makes us curiouse of why it happned¨or ¨since the medicince or syrum or what ever didnt kill we must examine it for the cause of being immune to it and lethal to humans¨and suddenly the create escapes and its dangerouse adn what then dont kill it jsut shoot hi mwith a tranquilizer ….soon in the future i bet somthing similar might happen adn it would be we humans fault we so ignorant
haha, you people are all so fucking stupid. how funny
omg its a ell to me but i think it was killed by the people how found it ……….. but its a ell
well the thing is its obviously a deep water shark look at the eyes with the huge pupal to catch all the light it can so the fact it was that close to the surface means it was near death though moving it and causing it all the stress prob didnt help still an amazing find
I love how the comments are getting progressively dumber. No, it’s not some kind of miraculous eel-shark hybrid, it’s just a deepwater frilled shark.
All these comments are hilarious. This proves God’s existence? Bull-crap. It’s an eel? No. Fail. Animated? Definitely not. Fail.
All I have to say is that it is pretty cool that they discovered this, although it is a shame that it died.
Photoshopped!!! j/k
but i wish we could have just document the proof that we saw it, and left it alone. Why we always gotta capture something???? Im not with the GODsheep, but i dont agree that Science NEEDED to capture this animal to study it. You really think that animals in an aquarium don’t know that they are in a box??????
Besides im sure it is now being sold as a Black Market delicacy, and sum rich dude is munchin on sum right now!
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Where’s Tony Jaa????
I must confess……….. I DID IT. I snuck in to feed it but the french fries got stuck in its throat.
look people after all the shit this planet has gone through in the billions of years it has been here. i honestly believe that nothing we do will destroy or kill this planet. people say a lot about how “were polluting the ocean and its killing animals” or “global warming is causing these animals to die” it might be true on some minute insignificant level but nothing that will drastically affect the planet. and this shark people are saying was killed by people. thats a load of crap. i dont know why it came to the surface but whatever the reason this animal came from the depths of the ocean. as a diver i know that every thirty feet you pass through One atmosphere of pressure and going from 900 to 30ft the pressure on the shark would literally cause the fish to “burst” because all the pressure on its body is being released and eventually the contents of its body would grow beyond the natural size and the animal would die slowly and painfully. but i digress. IT IS NOT OUR FAULT!!!!
what a tard ^^^^^^^^
And the usual cretins going “faaake! omg it’s so obvious it’s photoshopped”… You think you re being clever cause you ve probably been fooled by a fake picture before; but you re being an even bigger fool by thinking real pictures are fake, idiots
Does it taste like chicken?
This is not a prehistoric animal; it is a contemporary animal.
Can anyone tell me what date this was dicovered?
This is an interesting Pic, if it is, as others have said, that this creature is a Deep Water one, then it’s coming to shallower waters could be any number of things. We have other “prehistoric and fossil” type creatures on the planet now. The Shark, The Crocodile, the Alligator, to name just a few. I see no reason why this should not be included in that grouping.
As for the name calling, childish comments and so on, to those people I say. Grow Up.
why cant we just study wild animals in the wild. we can see what they eat or wat eats them, see how long they could live without us interfearing, and we could see how they act in the wild. i dont know why we have to study animals in captivity cause they dont act the same as they do in the wild.
I apologize, but most of the people who have commented here are being… pretty fucking ignorant.
As mentioned earlier, if it was found near shore it was doomed for death regardless. Now, if you’re totally into letting nature be, then you can rightfully say we should have left it alone.
The majority of you however have just been blabbering about the dozen different ways we HAD to of killed it. A good three or four of you brought a religious debate out of nowhere. And one or two of you claimed that it was global warming…with no real knowledge of the story.
Stop speculating and comment either off what’s in the story or off what you actually know.
wow what a shame. why the fuck would anyone take something like that away from its natural habitat. the thing should not of even been alive today…so wouldn’t they think there were critical elements keeping this creature alive in its habitat!? most marine life will die with sudden changes. even owning a saltwater fish tank is tricky. i mean i can find justice in taking animals out of natural habitats into man made ones for study because we have plenty of those animals. i still think it is very wrong. but if this was the only live one why would we want to fuck it up? if it would have died on its own at least everyone would know it was more of a natural death. i just think it is a shame we can not leave things in nature the way they are…but i also believe everything happens for a reason. im sure they are going to still study the body and get some good info out of it. but its still a shame.
you guys have some awesome fish lmao is it eatible?
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This is a frilled shark. Scientists have known of its existence for a while, however, this is the first living individual they have found. Typically this species only comes out into open ocean to die.