Bizarre deep-sea shark with blunging eyes & teeth is branded ‘stuff of nightmare’ after being caught by fisherman

 

A fisherman is shocked when he lurches into a strange-looking sea creature he thinks is a terrifying deep-sea shark.

Trapman Bermagui, from Sydney, posted a picture of the odd-looking shark on Facebook with people calling it "the stuff of nightmares".

A lifeless sea monster was pulled from 2,133 feet underwater off the coast of Australia - with swollen eyes and small, prominent teeth.

People were deeply disturbed by this creature from the depths as one commented: “Things from nightmares over there.”

While another joked, "He looks really happy that he removed the braces, so it's bringing out the gums and teeth."

Others have begun to speculate that the mystery fishing wasn't a real shark at all and could have been man-made.

One person said, "Man made...either sculpted or mixed DNA with the help of a table..."

But the fisherman responded to people's comments that confirmed that it was indeed a shark lurking miles under the ocean's surface.

He said, "Not a cook at all. It's a ragged shark, also known as a type of dog-drawn shark."

“These sharks are common at depths of more than 600 metres.

We usually hunt them in the winter."

Dean Grubbs, associate director of research at the Coastal and Marine Laboratory at Florida State University, also focused on reports of exotic fishing.

He told US Newsweek that it appears to be a rough fish dog,

One of the species that comes from the Somniosidae family of sharks.

He said, “In my research in the deep sea, we have discovered quite a few of them in the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas.

"Ours came from 740 to 1,160 meters (2,400 to 3,800 feet) deep, so it's a little deeper than this report.

“They are from the family Somniosidae, sleeping sharks,

Same family as Greenland shark, but it's clearly a much smaller species."

However, Christopher Lowe, professor and director of the Long Beach Shark Laboratory at California State University, thinks it could be a different species of shark.

“It looks to me like a deep-water keteven shark, which is well-known in the waters off Australia,” he said,

Although he indicated that he could not see the entire body of the shark or its size.

"It seems to me that Dalatias lata; however, we are discovering new species of sharks in deep water all the time and many of them look very similar to each other."

In August of this year, The Sun reported that a 16-foot "old" Greenland shark was spotted in the Caribbean.

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A blind monster was spotted off the coast of Belize by a team of researchers who were on a boat tagging tiger sharks with local fishermen.

The team put up a long line in an attempt to catch the sharks but couldn't believe their eyes when the Greenland shark appeared.

At first, they thought the shark, which looks "really old,"

"He died but came back to life," Florida International University researcher Devanci Kasana said.

"It was very surprising and confusing," Cassana told NPR.

“As soon as she entered our field of vision, we saw a black figure getting bigger and bigger.