Hi Will. Thanks for this question! Frilled sharks are very strange looking sharks. You’re right – they look much more like an eel or a sea snake than a shark. Both are quite long and skinny, with ...

Sea shanties and tales have been spun since the dawn of man about horrific creatures in the sea terrorizing ships and eating crew members right off the decks. While many assumed that these were just ...

The shark pictured here is not 80 million years old. The frilled shark is sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because its lineage can be traced back approximately 80 million years. However, ...

Sometimes called a “living fossil” because it has changed so little since prehistoric times, the eel-like frilled shark—which is rarely seen by humans—has been in the news this week after a snake-like ...

The frilled shark was spotted by scientists off the coast of Portugal This shark has outlived its contemporaries like Tyrannosaurus rex In 80 million years, it has rarely been seen or filmed in its ...

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-era shark with 300 teeth and a snake’s head off the Portuguese coast. The frilled shark was caught by a trawler during a research project on how to minimise ...

Portuguese scientists have captured a "shark from the age of the dinosaurs" off the Algarve coast. Researchers caught the rare frilled shark aboard a trawler, where they were working on a European ...

An ultra-rare frilled shark — which has a body shaped like a snake and a head like a shark — was recently spotted and captured off the Algarve coast, Portugal’s southernmost region, according to The ...