A fishing crew got a shock when they pulled out this terrifying long-nosed fish - and it's only the second time one has been caught in the area.
After much speculation, experts have identified the toothy swimmer as the extremely rare long-nosed chimaera.
It was caught in the freezing arctic waters of Davis Strait in Northern Canada by the Nunavut fishing boat.
With a nose to rival Pinocchio's, a monstrous mouth and a venomous spine atop its gelatinous grey body, it looks quite the freak.
Researchers first believed the weird fish was the similarly freakish goblin shark - and looking at its mouth there are similarities.
But they say the long-nosed chimaera is rarely caught because it is likely to make its home at abysmal depths not often visited by humans.
University of Windsor researcher Nigel Hussey told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: "Potentially, if we fish deeper, maybe between 1,000 and 2,000 metres, we could find that's there's actually quite a lot of them there
After much speculation, experts have identified the toothy swimmer as the extremely rare long-nosed chimaera.
It was caught in the freezing arctic waters of Davis Strait in Northern Canada by the Nunavut fishing boat.
With a nose to rival Pinocchio's, a monstrous mouth and a venomous spine atop its gelatinous grey body, it looks quite the freak.
Researchers first believed the weird fish was the similarly freakish goblin shark - and looking at its mouth there are similarities.
But they say the long-nosed chimaera is rarely caught because it is likely to make its home at abysmal depths not often visited by humans.
University of Windsor researcher Nigel Hussey told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: "Potentially, if we fish deeper, maybe between 1,000 and 2,000 metres, we could find that's there's actually quite a lot of them there
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