Shark-snake: living 'dinosaur' discovered 80 million years ago

It can be considered a living dinosaur, a specimen still alive but swimming in our seas. A shark with a snake's head and 300 sharp teeth. It was seen by European scientists during a research project off the coast of Portugal

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It can be considered a living dinosaur, a specimen still alive but swimming in our seas. A shark with a snake's head and 300 sharp teeth. It was seen by European scientists during a research project off the coast of Portugal.

The oceans hide unusual surprises. Although we have gone a long way with research, there are still many mysteries hidden in the depths of the sea. About 95 percent of the oceans are unexplored. And among the hitherto unknown creatures we can also include these sharks, considered one of the oldest living species on the planet.

Its prehistoric contemporaries, such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Triceratops, have been dead for millions of years, but the shark still swims at the bottom of oceans around the world.

As reported by the BBC, in recent days the group of scientists from the European Union was examining the depths of the Atlantic Ocean with a very specific objective: "To minimize unwanted catches in commercial fishing". In other words, the purpose of their mission was to save all those creatures unfortunately ended up in fishing nets and instead could have been saved.

Instead, they finished in spite of themselves egr capture one of the rarest and oldest creatures on the planet, worthy of XNUMXth century tales about sea snakes.

What the sailors didn't know was that it was shark it was exactly the same even millions of years ago, at the time of the Pangea.

This shark on average is 1,90 long and its head resembles that of a snake. With its approximately 300 teeth it feeds on fish and others creature Marine. We know little about him because he lives in the depths of the ocean, off the coasts of Japan, New Zealand and Australia but also in the Atlantic according to the new discovery.

In its 80 million years on the planet, it has rarely come into contact with humans or been seen or filmed in its natural habitat.

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It is not yet known how he survived extinction, compared to his contemporaries for this reason he remains a creature with an almost mythical aura but definitely real.

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The only discordant note is the fact that it was captured instead of being left in its habitat.

Francesca Mancuso

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