John Hopton for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A fishing crew in Australia had a surprise guest in their catch recently, after snaring a rarely seen shark with 300 teeth and a terrifying, pre-historic appearance that was enough to make even Australian fisherman go all sissy. The 6-foot long frilled shark more closely resembles a crazed eel, but has the tail of a shark. Referred to as a ‘living fossil,’ Its ancestry goes back at least 80 million years. With 300 teeth in dozens of rows its diet consists of creatures more half its size, including squid and octopus. Although the shark is known to science, they are very hard to find, even if we wanted to.
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