You definitely don’t want to go near this guy. Look at those teeth, all 300 of them. And he’s been around a lot longer than we have; in fact, this frilled shark, recently caught off the coast of Portugal, has lived, largely unchanged, for 80 million years – since T Rex and his friends were roaming the planet.
A deep-sea dweller, living between 390 and 4,200 feet below the surface, the frilled shark has a unique mouth, with more than 300 teeth in 25 rows, specifically designed “to trap squid, fish and other sharks,” according to The Portugal News. If that’s not enough, the mouth is lined with spines – dermal denticles – to give it an even more frightening look. This particular frilled shark is five feet long; they can grow to more than six feet. Read more:
http://www.newsweek.com/dinosaur-era-frilled-shark-insane-teeth-found-portugal-708764
