With its long snout and lightning-fast jaws, the goblin shark looks like something from a nightmare — but it’s actually a gentle deep-sea dweller. Living thousands of feet below the surface, this rare ...

Goblin sharks are deep-sea fish whose frightening, protrusile jaws served as an inspiration for the terrifying creatures in the “Alien” movie franchise. Little is known about these elusive sharks, and ...

At top, the suspicious specimen photo. Below, a picture of an actual, verified goblin shark. Screenshot: Giannis Papadakis / Nicolas Straube / Mediterranean Marine Science / Gizmodo A deep-sea drama ...

An enormous, 1,760-pound goblin shark has been caught off the coast of Taiwan, carrying six large pups inside. The shark is considered to be the largest of its kind to have been captured in these ...

Top: The citizen science photo of an alleged juvenile goblin shark found on the beach of Anafi Island in Greece. Bottom: A juvenile female goblin shark found near Shimizu, Japan. Giannis Papadakis and ...

Three pictures of the pregnant goblin shark and her pups. A trawler has landed a 1,760-pound (800 kilograms) goblin shark pregnant with six pups off the northeast coast of Taiwan — the largest goblin ...

Last year, scientists described a weird goblin shark in a scientific journal despite never setting eyes on it. Experts now question the review process that approved the study. When you purchase ...