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🤯 Did You Know (click to read)
The species name owstoni honors Alan Owston, who provided the original specimen.
The goblin shark was formally described in 1898 after a specimen was caught off the coast of Japan and examined by ichthyologist David Starr Jordan.
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💥 Impact (click to read)
Its bizarre anatomy stunned early researchers, who recognized that it represented an entirely distinct lineage of shark unlike the more familiar coastal species.
Even in an era when much of Earth's surface had been mapped, the discovery underscored how the deep ocean still concealed large vertebrates unknown to science.
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