Elusive Ghost Shark caught on camera for the first time
The folks at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research snapped the footage, which was uploaded on National Geographic’s YouTube channel
It’s not actually a shark, although they are closely related and also have skeletons made out of cartilage instead of bones. They live around 2,600 meters below the surface (which explains why sightings are so rare), where they eat crustaceans, mollusks, and other fish.
They’ve also been around for approximately 300 million years; whereas, we’ve only been around for about 200,000, which I guess gives them more of a right to inhabit the planet. And unlike us, they haven’t completely ****ed up the planet beyond all repair.
