Goblin shark - a whale, millennia suggestive fear in sailors

buildings - so-called this kind of shark sailors from different countries and eras, and in English they are called shark-goblin - because it really catches the essence of fear and like a goblin.Today, this type is most common to researchers at the Australian and Japanese waters.

Oceans occupies two-thirds of the land area.This whole area is a realm in which the law is terrible, low vulnerability, brutal and ruthless group - shark, including the shark-goblin.The exact number of shark species has not yet been set.Scientists describe just three hundred and fifty, but - this is not the limit.It is assumed that there are three hundred and fifty million years on earth.

Mouth of the oldest inhabitant of the world's oceans during the hunt can be extended, forming a huge crater.Outwardly, it resembles a parrot's beak, above which hung a long and unusually sensitive horn or nose.The role of the nose is very high, because the creature lives on the big dark depths, where the sense of smell is much more important than the view.With this big nose in pitch darkness at the bottom of the ocean finds food goblin shark.Photo shows a good strong nose and mouth of this amazing inhabitant of the ocean depths.The average size adults - four meters in length.Dorsal fins they are not too long, but endowed with a very long tail and a movable fin.

Only the most lazy goblin shark can sail to the habitats of people to be fed and have some fun, so people know a little bit about them, but their images are found on jewelry Egyptian temples and description - in the works of the philosophers of ancient Greece.Rumors and legends about the goblin shark is actively disseminated among all European ports and the ocean.They are written by poets and writers from different ages.But the people who lived previously on the Pacific coast, worshiped their god untouchable.They declared war on those who indulged in the hunt for this amazing animal and captured enemies sacrificed goblin shark.

The case when caught the goblin shark was gutted, but contrived, she bit off his hand to one of the fishermen.I stripped all the meat from the legs naval officer, almost a dead shark vyalyavshayasya long on deck, when he contemptuously kicked her leg.At one seagoing vessel was caught goblin shark.Sailors and gutted her with contempt for her ugly mind thrown into the sea.Her intestines are strung on a hook to lure other fish and thrown into the water.Imagine their surprise when the bait, they again pulled out the same gutted fish.

The goblin shark eating picky.She eats everything.For example, among the items recovered from the stomachs of captured brownies were not only sacks filled with gold and even a safe with jewelry, but also an arsenal of grenades and dynamite.There are cases when extracted from shark stomach roll roofing sheets and nails packed in a wooden box, and so all things like women's and men's hats, coats and dresses - are countless.We get out of the shark's womb horn bovine animals: deer and cows.