Check Out the Ghost Shark!

The ghost shark is creepy as hell . It floats around the disconsolate part of the ocean looking like a fallen angel that just clawed its way out of hell . It ’s not totally a shark . It ’s more like a shark ’s before , eerie congeneric .

What you ’re seeing is achimaera , but it goes by many names . Sometimes it ’s known as an elephant fish , a informer Pisces the Fishes , and a Chimaera monstrosa . Whatever it ’s call , it ’s not totally what we call up of as a shark . It has a gristly frame , instead of a frame made of bone , and it has claspers , thedivided sexual organof the manlike shark . It even has thelittle divot along the nosethat get it sense electromagnetic disturbances in the water . What it does n’t have are denticles — the piddling hooking - corresponding musical scale that make a shark ’s skin smooth one way , but rough enough to draw line the other way .

They also do n’t have the tooth of a shark . These are , for the most part , bottom - feeders . They demolish the footling casing - covered creatures that they break up up . What they lack in danger , they make up for in presence . They ’re in the same family as sharks and rays , so they have the graceful slam of their tail fin , combined with a sentience of menace , and as we can see from the motion picture , no sense of veneration .