Bizarre deep sea shark shocks fisherman: ‘stuff of nightmares’

Is that this dastardly, alien wanting creature really a uncommon, deep sea shark?

You higher be-reef it.

An Australian fisherman posted a photograph of the beast of the deep blue — one described because the “stuff of nightmares” by Fb commenters — after reeling it in from 2,133 ft under the floor, Newsweek reported.

Believing he’d noticed a deep-sea tough pores and skin shark, Sydney fisherman Trapman Bermagui posted the snap on Monday; the picture has since gone viral on the social media site. The bizarre discover sparked replies of sheer worry — and a few humor — in direction of the bug eyed, listless creature from the abyss.

“The deep sea is one other planet,” one person wrote.”

“Solely [a] mom might love that,” commented one other.

However what precisely was Bermagui’s eerie catch of the day? Consultants are chomping on the bit to search out out.

It might be a roughskin dogfish shark, identified additionally as Centroscymnus owstoni, in response to Dean Grubbs, an affiliate analysis director on the Florida State College Coastal and Marine Laboratory.

“In my deep-sea analysis, we’ve caught fairly a number of of them within the Gulf of Mexico and within the Bahamas,” he instructed Newsweek. “They’re within the household Somniosidae, the Sleeper Sharks, the identical household of the Greenland Shark, however clearly a a lot smaller species.”

Grubbs added that he continuously finds the dogfish at depths between 2,400 to three,800 ft. Bermagui too chimed in, saying they’re “frequent in depths higher than 600 meters” in his a part of the world.

“We catch them within the wintertime normally,” the Aussie fisherman stated.

One professional believes the creature to be a deepwater kitefin shark, identified additionally as a Dalatias lata.

“Seems to me like a deepwater kitefin shark, that are identified within the waters off Australia,” stated director of the California State College Lengthy Seaside Shark Lab Christopher Lowe. “Nevertheless, we uncover new species of deepwater shark on a regular basis and plenty of look similar to one another.”