AUSTRALIA (KABC) -- Some fisherman are still reeling from a very unusual catch they made off the coast of Australia. The fishermen were out looking for perch when they caught a frilled shark. It has a ...

The frilled shark is one of the oldest and strangest predators still alive, surviving in deep ocean waters with a body plan that has barely changed for tens of millions of years . Its eel-like body, ...

Fishermen never know what they might catch when they hit the waters. They may go looking for one thing—or nothing at all—and come back with something totally unexpected. That's what recently happened ...

Normally, we wouldn't call something a living fossil. But the name seems tailor-made for the frilled shark, whose roots are traced to 80 million years ago. Its prehistoric origins are obvious in its ...

It looks like something out of “Alien,” but has more in common with “Jurassic Park.” It’s a rare frilled shark that has been caught by a fisherman in Australia, where no one remembers ever seeing one ...

Hi Will. Thanks for this question! Frilled sharks are very strange looking sharks. You’re right – they look much more like an eel or a sea snake than a shark. Both are quite long and skinny, with ...

The shark pictured here is not 80 million years old. The frilled shark is sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because its lineage can be traced back approximately 80 million years. However, ...

A 300-toothed frilled shark, with a face fitting of a sea monster, was caught off the waters of Victoria, Australia, last month. The rarely sighted shark has ancestors dating back 80 million years and ...