The deep sea just gave up one of its biggest secrets, and it was all caught on camera. Marine biologists have, for the first time, filmed goblin sharks cruising in their natural habitat, capturing two separate encounters with the rarely seen species thousands of feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface, reports Popular Science. The pink, snaggletoothed "living fossil"—fish expert Culum Brown tells the Guardian that "not even their mother would love their faces," adding that the shark is "like something out of a horror movie"—was first IDed in 1898 and is usually found around 3,000 feet down.
However, the shark, which can grow to be up to 13 feet long, has mostly been studied via dead specimens hauled up by accident that don't live long at the surface, per Popular Science. The newly released footage, recorded during expeditions in 2024 and 2025, is part of research published last month in the Journal of Fish Biology. One video shows a goblin shark near remote Jarvis Island between Hawaii and the Cook Islands, expanding the species' known range into the central part of the Pacific. A second goblin shark was filmed on a slope of the Tonga Trench, southeast of Fiji, at a depth about 2,300 feet beyond what scientists expected. "Seeing the most iconic of all the deep-sea sharks alive and looking healthy in its natural habitat is a unique honor," says study co-author Aaron Judah of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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