10 Most Rare Shark Species Hidden in The Ocean!

10 Most Rare Shark Species Hidden in The Ocean!

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10 Most Rare Shark Species Hidden in The Ocean!
Great white sharks are fierce predators. Whale sharks are gentle giants. But you guys already know
about those. You want to find out more about the rarest sharks there is, and by golly did you come to
the right place. These sharks are the rarest of the rare, especially number one so make sure to stick
around for that. Here are 10 of the rarest sharks hidden in the ocean.

Number 10. The Frilled Shark
I figured I’d start thigs off with a shark that has been featured quite frequently on this channel. If the
video title has the words “weird” or “terrifying” in it, you’ll probably see this animal on that list. I’m
talking about of course, the frilled shark.
The frilled shark, one of the two living sharks species of the Chlamydoselachidae family, usually lives
around 1,500 meters deep but in Japan can be found, if you’re really lucky, between 50 and 200 meters.
After footage of this shark was recorded six years ago, it was immediately dubbed a prehistoric shark or
living fossil because, in all honesty, you’d expect to find that mug in a natural history museum, not while
scuba diving off the coast of Japan.
The frilled shark can reach a length of 4 meters and has very long and flexible jaws that allow it to feed
on large prey such as the Pacific octopus and other sharks. Aside from that, nothing much is known
about this shark really, mainly due to the fact that it is rarely seen, much less caught.

Number 9. The Sharpnose Sevengill Shark
Given that the sharpnose sevengill shark can be found in tropical and temperate regions of 6 out of 7
continents, you’d think that scientists would know more about these creatures. But you’d be wrong.
Here are just about what we know about it.
First, and most obvious, is the fact that it has seven gill slits which is, one more gill slit than most sharks.
In the western Atlantic Ocean, this shark is distributed from North Carolina and northern Gulf of Mexico
to Cuba and from Venezuela south to Argentina, and in the eastern Atlantic from Morocco to Namibia,
including the Mediterranean Sea. It’s also found in the Indian Ocean in waters off southwestern India,
Aldabra Island, southern Mozambique, and South Africa. Distribution in the Pacific Ocean occurs from
Japan to China, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand as well as off the coast of northern Chile. See
what I mean about these sharks being found almost everywhere?
Like the frilled shark, it’s a deep water species, hence the reason why we know so little about them. It
prefers to hang out in waters 3,280 feet deep where it could be found idly gliding near the ocean floor.

Number 8. The Ghost Shark
Dive deep deep down into the ocean, long past the point where the sun’s rays can penetrate, and you
will enter the realm of the ghost sharks. Also called chimaeras, ghost sharks are dead-eyed, wing-finned
fish rarely seen by people.

Relatives of sharks and rays, these deep-sea denizens split off from these other groups some 300 million
years ago. Even though ghost sharks have been gliding through the depths since long before the
dinosaurs, we still know very little about them.
These guys are so rare that it was only first filmed in 2009 the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute in California sent an ROV 6,700 feet down into the water off the coast of California. They
weren’t even looking for ghost sharks and came upon them by sheer dumb luck.

Number 7. The Goblin Shark
Another deep sea dweller that makes regular appearance in our channel. But with a face like that, why
shouldn’t it?
Goblin sharks have a protruding snout that looks like a pointy sword. Just below the snout are a set of
protruding jaws that appear to be mismatched for the shark's face, as if evolution spun the wheel of ugly
and the goblin shark lost in the worst possible way. What's more, these sharks aren't your stereotypical
gray color. Instead, their skin has a distinct pink hue.
If you're ever in the water when a goblin shark passes by, you'll find yourself dwarfed in size — they can
grow as big as 5.5 meters in length. Fortunately, you're unlikely to encounter such a beast. These sharks
typically cruise way down to 920 meters, and the older they get, the deeper they dive.
As with a lot of deep-sea animals, science knows very little about goblin sharks. No one knows exactly
how they reproduce, and a pregnant female has never been captured. So like the goblins of fairy tales,
these fish remain a mysterious and fantastic example of just how diverse life on Earth can be.