Commercial anglers made waves in science circles after snagging a super rare, nearly 2,000 pound “goblin shark” while trawling for fish off the coast of Taiwan.

Using a camera to explore the ocean floor — roughly 820 to 1,200 feet below the surface — off the coast of Puerto Rico, scientists got a rare opportunity to observe something they hardly see ...

He points out that 20 percent of all shark species have been discovered in the last decade. Etmopterus benchleyi, or the ninja lanternshark, has sharp and nearly translucent teeth.

A bad movie can be good fun or it can just be bad, which is what “Ghost Shark” is. This may be Syfy and it may have sharks in it, but folks, this is no “Sharknado.” Yes, peo… ...

"This species has translucent skin, pink body and evil fangs," the museum wrote in the post. "Because the head is shaped like a goblin, it is called 'Goblin shark'.

That's because of tiny translucent scales, roughly 0.2 millimeters in size, called "denticles" (because they strongly resemble teeth) all over the shark's body, especially concentrated in the ...

While the shortfin mako shark has a specialized ... Lang and her team discovered that some of those translucent 0.2-mm-long dermal denticle scales are actually capable of flexing up to an angle ...

But the mystery surrounding this shark just continued to grow as they examined this specimen. The skin was thin, smooth and translucent, due to lack of the dermal denticles, and was particularly ...

A trawler has landed a 1,760-pound (800 kilograms) goblin shark pregnant with six pups off the northeast coast of Taiwan — the largest goblin shark ever caught in those waters.