In 1898, a ship off the island of Yokohama, Japan, caught the first ever known goblin shark. Distribution map for Mitsukurina owstoni by Yzx, GFDL. It was first discovered off Japan in 1898. Some shark families even evolved just recently, such as in the past 30 or 20 million years – still a long, long time. None of the original families remain, though, and most families today date back to 200 million years ago or later. Sharks, in general, are an old species, having come to exist roughly 400 million years ago. It is the last living member of the family of sharks known as Mitsukurinidae, which has been around for more than a hundred million years, even before the dinosaurs appeared. The goblin shark is considered a living fossil. Goblin Shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) at Natural History Museum in Vienna. The goblin shark is the last of an ancient bloodline. There is another shark, however, that looks even weirder and uglier, you might even say it’s disfigured, making it fitting of its name – the goblin shark. There’s also the megamouth shark with its massive mouth, the sawshark with its sword-like snout, the cookiecutter shark which looks like a sock puppet and the frilled shark, which looks more like an eel with a big head than a shark. The hammerhead shark, for example, has a weird-shaped head that makes you wonder how it can see. Not all sharks, however, are easy on the eyes. Most of the sharks we see in aquariums are magnificent creatures with smooth, bluish gray skin, pointed fins, rounded snouts and lean or stocky, well-proportioned bodies. Goblin Shark Facts You Need to Know! Goblin Shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) at Natural History Museum in Vienna.
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