I thought the bi-cuspid tooth we saw today in class was pretty amazing until I saw the tri-cuspid tooth of this prehistoric frilled shark! It's species name, anguineus, means "eel-like", referring to the long, slender, eel-like body which appears to be highly flexible in this video. The frilled shark was thought to be extinct until just this year when the shark in this video was discovered off the coast of Japan in January! Apparently the researchers were so excited they decided that even though the shark was in rough shape when they found it, it would be ok to put it through the stress of trying to move it to a research lab. Surprise, surprise it died hours after arriving. At what price is the research worth it? Kind of reminds me of the man who dedicated his life to giant squid and then killed the first baby he caught. What a sin.
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