Exotic Animal in the Deep Dark Blue World
The Creature
This majestic creature known as the Goblin Shark as known as a living fossil. Is a very rare breed of shark that lives in the deep blue see.. It is only related to the family of the Mitsukurinidae. The lineage of 125 million years old. The shark is 10 and 13 ft long when it is fully grown. Its jaws inside its mouth fold out and its razor sharp teeth are then displayed in a different manner.
Food
What this interesting shark eats is teleost fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans which is near the bottom of the sea floor and in the middle of the water column.
The habitat
They typically live around upper continental slopes, submarine canyons and the sea mounts through out the world at depths greater then 330ft, such adults are found deeper then the juveniles.
Interesting facts
-The shark is a very slow swimmer.
-When the shark typically catches its prey it extends its jaws and points out its teeth then begins to perform a sucking motion to impale its prey with it's teeth.
-The shark is considered an endangered animal and if caught is fined, unless you are a deep see fisherman then you have to release it immediately.(The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)).
Very interesting facts about the animal. It is great to read posts about animals that I never knew existed before.
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