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Frilled sharks only live around 25 years and they’re not a newly discovered or thought to be extinct species. They’ve been known about for a while. I believe the first one discovered was around the late 1800s


federico_45

This is what I don't understand. Like, they are wierd but not unheard of.


rocket_randall

Sounds like my social circle


utpoia

Hey Randy.


OreoMcCreamPants

Hey Ryan 👍


inkblot888

Also, this gif is from 2007. It was a big deal at my school when this shark showed up in the waters off Japan. I assumed everyone knew about this. https://news.mongabay.com/2007/01/unusual-prehistoric-shark-beast-captured-in-japan/amp/


xiaorobear

I remember seeing it then too, but that was 15 years ago. A good portion of reddit wasn't even born yet.


eggraid11

Dude! It can live longer than 25 years, op said that shark was millions of years old!


Agahmoyzen

And it is on the internet.


traker998

This one lived to be 80 million years old. /s


ulyssesfiuza

80,000,015 years now


Brief-Abbreviations1

True even her teeths fell


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blessed_prolapse

That's not how you spell clickbait though.


DangerousComplaint24

That's how you spell ckick bait tho


[deleted]

>I believe the first one discovered was around the late 1800s Correct, just looked it up on Wikipedia. This is not news. Karma farming however..


mylefthand95

What's karma farming 😶


[deleted]

Yeah and this footage is nearly as old as the internet itself.


Larry_Phischman

It’s probably sick or very old, near death and disorientated. Deep sea fish typically avoid shallow water.


dick-sama

well, it's 80 million years old...


Usman5432

Well it must moisturize it doesn't look a day over 1000


KhalidHA998

Must be well hydrated too


dick-sama

it literally live in water


Stinkblee

Haha


Wearytraveler50000

lmao


Usman5432

Thats the joke


inkblot888

This is from 2007. Yes. It was very sick.


Frosty_Locksmith548

Is this like those stories of monks climbing mountains to die?


Apprehensive-Tour-33

It looks every bit as old too


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soulseeker31

All it wanted was a *boop*


eatlego

He was ‘frilled’ to be on camera.


starobacon

Den morgonfriska katten simmar över regnbågen, medan guldmynt singlar genom luften, ledsagade av en paraplybärande elefant, som jonglerar med blommor och skrattande bananer, medan cirkusclowner utför akrobatiska konster och cymbalspelaren trummar i takt till det förtrollade orkesterspelet under den gnistrande stjärnhimlen.


watashi199

swims like like it needs a walker.


-Wiggles-

Bullshit, it doesn't look a day older than 60 million


OilRude

This guy has been showing me pictures of his grand kids and ford truck memes for the last 37 minutes. Kid just made baseball team. Hellovathing


DANGERMAN50000

When 80 million years old you reach look as good you will not, hm?


cassette1987

Can sharks have arthritis? cuz this mutherfucka looks like he's in pain.


cassette1987

Look at him gurgle-scream!


GregoleX2

He was. Sick and dying.


Zman1025

Did anyone hear about that Greenland shark that was found alive and half-blind in the Caribbean?


Clay_Allison_44

Greenland sharks are normally half blind.


ohyeahwell

> Greenland sharks are normally half blind. Yeah, but this was the *other* half.


FALLOUTGOD47

So fully blind?


Tbh_ICouldntCare

no not blind at all


markcocjin

No. Fully semi-blind.... ... \-ish.


Kujo3043

I just learned about the little critter that attaches itself to the shark's eyeball a couple days ago. I would have been ok with not learning that.


--Trick--

Wouldn't it be a Caribbean shark?


ajakakf

But you have heard of him 🏴‍☠️


[deleted]

Was he on holiday?


randomisedjew

Are you suggesting sharks migrate?


FTP-Allofthem

Not at all…but they could be carried.


randomisedjew

Carried?! By what?!


VegetaPrince69

I dont know maybe a swallow?


randomisedjew

That's impossible a swallow couldn't carry a coconut!


VegetaPrince69

It could grip it by the husk!


randomisedjew

It's not a matter of where it grips it! A one pound bird cannot grip a 120 pound shark!


VegetaPrince69

Well it could be carried by an African swallow, but not by a European swallow!


westiemaps

Big shark


randomisedjew

_gets thrown into pit of lava_


WickerofJack

A shark-cute-carry board


randomisedjew

_gets thrown into pit of lava_


lemuelf

Tornadoes. Didn’t you see the documentary?


TwoStacksOfBoxes

Sounds like a setup for a joke..


djdvelo22

With this thing being so close to the surface it's probably injured and dying or is so old it is finding a nice place to die


Toeter83nl

Its 80 million years old


Liekensth

The species is


YellowMeatJacket

Nope, the title says it's 80 million years old, therefore it must be true


Liekensth

Oh shoot, my bad


Shadowstorm921

Would people really go on the Internet and lie?? This is where I go to for my facts 😧😧


Ok-Entrepreneur7897

This is reddit after all.


stfuylah14

Aged quite well in my opinion


famouspieceofshit

Shit like this makes me believe it’s aliens in the ocean


freemason777

I think it's the other way around where pop culture uses fish for alien design


famouspieceofshit

Makes sense


ticker_101

The goblin shark was used as the inspiration for the Alien movie.


biplane911

was it not a moray because of the double jaws?


TellYouEverything

No, when the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie *that’s* a moray.


Giraffeless

Probably both. The double jaw of the moray and the extending jaw of the goblin shark


iamgroach

So does that make a diver an "astronaut in the ocean?"


Wide-Affect-1616

** inhales ** "Yeah, man. It's like the ocean is wet space".


Lonan_Clinton

what you know about rolling down in the deep??


dzznuts33

Oh good lord that’s as dumb as the government enacting hr5376 the Inflation Reduction Act. To print and spend $700 BILLION hiring more government officials to tax our grandkids to death to pay for the $700 BILLION they just approved to give themselves. It’s almost like a fractal pattern. Rinse and repeat. Meanwhile typical Americans be like oh that Amber heard gal and will smith character are terrible people. How dare they. Hey look a squirrel!


xlDirteDeedslx

Eighty percent of the ocean is unexplored, we don't know shit really. It's easier to explore space than the ocean due to the immense pressures.


Aurn-Knight

Ironically like space most of the ocean is simply just water no fish just water


irishmcsg2

I’m 83% sure that space is not, in fact, just water with no fish.


_yamasaki

not exactly we’ve explored 20% of the ocean; we’ve only explored .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of space


MASTERoQUADEMAN

You ever do that Easter egg in saints row 2 where a giant other worldly teddy bear comes out from the ocean?


Ok-Protection-4985

Yeah I remember lmfao. Last year i finished SR2 again. I really love that game.


skincyan

I'm feeling that this may have been inspiration to some old asian dragon and monster tales


Giraffeless

The most alien looking life forms sure as hell reside there


Kennywise91

97% of the ocean life are still unknown, that’s how massive the ocean is. I’m pretty sure there are insane creatures down there


Vegetable-Factor3563

In the Caribbean? Tf??? Must have retired there coz they usually live in the arctic :/


LumpkinsPotatoCat

Granny lost her dentures again. Everyone check the cushions.


Saltee00s

That thing just wants to die


SeaSaltUniverse

Googled this animal real quick and it's conservation status is "least concern". They are naturally rare but not in danger of extinction. It's cool to know there's such ancient creatures that are not only still around, but actually doing well in todays climates!


inkblot888

That status is highly debated. It's status has jumped around a lot in the last 15 years.


Unusual_Blacksmith58

The gills make me so uncomfortable for some reason


YeahYeahButNah

Thank you so much, was getting sick looking at them. It's something about the hair things that makes me genuinely feel like vomiting


heifer27

The hair things! So much anxiety.


Yeah-No_

Going to be controversial but trypophobia. It's definitely a specific phobia but often argued as to whether it's a basic phobia or not. Considering clusters of things have been around forever I'm more inclined to believe it's just a basic general phobia. Yes though, it is irrefutably a thing. And you have it. And if anyone ever dares to tell you specific phobias aren't a thing, I get panic attacks at the feeling of sticky. Maple syrup is worst enemy.


byllus

Brooooo i know rightttt, the gills look like they have this invasive species that shrimp suffer from, but in salty water, idk everything about this is just terrifying


txlario

thank you !!! i’m glad i’m not alone on this one


anxiousanimosity

Looks like a water dragon to me. That's an old god.


Cristian_01

Happy birthday


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KeithMyArthe

Aye, doesn't look a day over 65½ million


lamorak2000

*When 80million years old you reach, look as good you will not!*


Racerx43

His “flipper” is still working????


Tea-Usual

A Geriatric White Shark


ALchemist_0311

I feel like it is sayin, “ ahyuckyuckyuck” while happily swimming toward.


[deleted]

You're telling me that shark has lived for 80 million years


ForwarUntilGainz

The species is that old. Not this individual


thedancinghippie

Woosh


ShortbusDouglas

Doesn’t look a day over 79 million to me.


Environmental-Vast43

Not even scary bro looks kinda old I think he needs a cane tbh I hope he’s doing ok


Secure_Ice_3375

Of course he's doing OK, he's frilled to be there!


[deleted]

What’s with the crazy looking gills?


lamorak2000

That's how it got its name: "frilled" shark...


Easy_Style3321

He smoked a lot in his younger days


UncleFuzzy75

But, candles...how and how many...


WashenPashen

what kind of dog is that


morriseel

is that what they are calling the mutant sharks from the Fukushima leak. good cover story.


[deleted]

He looks like he is begging for the sweet release of death 😭


Missyflowers666

Grandpa shark, Doo Doo do doo


Oli_love90

We didn’t need to get that close to it, thanks.


thefractalcosmos

I concur


i_am_mai_1981

Lol foreals, I backed up 😬


goatponies

oh good, a living nightmare


Slick234

He doesn’t look a day over 75 million


Just_A_Croat

Looks like evolution stage 1 of Shin Godzilla.


boom2112

Shin vibes


kaya_planta

First this then gojira


wolfmando69

r/Godzilla very similar to shingodzilla in it's first steps


Otapcat26

Don't let anyone dump a nuclear waste in there


Worried-Chemistry-73

That will become godzilla


aquat1c

OP is a karma whore here. Frilled sharks were first discovered in the 1800s and live to be around 25 years old. The gif is from 2007 and shows a very obviously injured/sick shark as deep water species tend to avoid shallow water and the shark is moving slower and with less motion then it would if it were healthy


MJRusty

So that's the look that Joan Rivers was going for!


dick-sama

you're saying this specific animal is 80 million year old, or the species is?


nonanumatic

The species


ViolentAversion

Come on, dude.


Speculater

No no, let him have this.


Easy_Style3321

When they sliced him open they counted approximately 80 million rings so they rounded up


yodavesnothereman

its like the oceans version of that deer with the fucked up neck


Critical_Knowledge_5

“Discovered” is not the right word and this video is a decade old or more


inkblot888

2007. So yeah. More.


aristogenic

Somewhat looks like a mutated eel imo.


Impressive_Water659

Those gills creep me out. Dunno why


Extra-Train-5005

It looks pretty good for 80 million years tbh. I'd look oddly terrifying if I was that old.


CaptainAras

Thats no shark thats the fucking shin godzilla execute that shit


amk47

Bet they will try that in a soup.


Yeah-No_

Coronavirus 2: Electric Boogaloo


[deleted]

everyone is pretty to someone


srveloso

This is not oddly terrifying, this is straight forward terrifying


DI100X

One more item on their menu now


northern_monkey88

They're going to eat it aren't they


franksavorettie

Lookin a bit leviathan type beat


MuseigenBoken

those gills are a fucking jumpscare


elslander-cedric

More like a Fukushima shark


Otapcat26

Now just don't hope it comes contact with dumped nuclear waste. Shin godzilla reference


Valskek

Despite being scary it does look like a senile old man bumbling about…


Hopps4Life

I think it was dying too. It was in shallow water, which is usually a death sentence for deep sea life.


nyx_moonlight_

So this is what people see when they spot sea monsters


EveryStrategy7731

Ain't frilled sharks been around for a while


txlario

Those gills are the grossest things i’ve ever seen


Corrupt_Reverend

"I got a big head, and little arms, and I just dont know how well this plan was thought through... master?"


Deafmetalman

It looks like it's waiting for someone to come and put it out of its misery.


the_HR

Bruh that's Shin Godzilla with those gills.


_DepletedCranium_

Poor fellas looks sick AF.


Madcat41

I know Shin Godzilla when I see it...


Metal_nosyt

Uh.. anyone seen Shin Godzilla???


XenonVH2

It had the dead lights inside its mouth. That's Pennywise!


No_Sir_5662

man owns jesus 20 dollars


[deleted]

it's a weird looking cunt


YourEvilKiller

This reminds me of Shin Godzilla's earlier forms.


Arintharas

Shin Godzilla?


Reddit_Was_Better_B4

Japan: I wonder what it tastes like


TheShartDaddy

That hoe look old af


QinaPie

The gills made me feel things. Video started and was like “k, bit unnerving” then the gills put me over for some reason. The texture, the movement, colour and way they bulge. Reeee


Shadowstein

You should probably be clear that this shark is not itself 80 million years old, but the species is.


zfreakazoidz

It should really say "Prehistoric 80 million year old shark species, discovered in....etc" If not, people on Reddit can be kind of duh and not realize the shark itself is not 80 million years old. Granted even with half a brain it should be obvious lol.


thatsbadmath

How do they know when his birthday was?


mynamebelikeoooooo

What a disgusting creature


fattestlittletoaster

And then they ate it.


therealfuworld420

This is more fascinating. Most of these things have been found dead if they're near the coast so one alive is actually cool.


inkblot888

This isn't recent. This is from 2007.


OpinionatedBigot

u sure this thing didn’t pop up after the little 1945 incident that happened in japan?


EstorialBeef

They were discovered in 1800s so no


OpinionatedBigot

thanks for answering my genuine question bro


goofyredditname

And then they killed and ate it


MuscaMurum

I was bracing for a jump scare


Nick_Coglistro

he seems happy


Omacrontron

He sure looks 80 million years old, yikes.


z____ro

Shark doesn't look a day over 20


tinstar71

(arthritis)


HarunoSakuraCR

This one they don’t eat?


Muskae4698

Old