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Frilled shark video from Japan

Courtesy of the Awashima Marine Park (via CNN, via some guy video taping his TV) comes this video of a "frilled shark", a rarely seen species known as Chlamydoselachus anguineus. AP report here. They normally live thousands of feet beneath the waves, and they've changed little over time and are thus sometimes supposedly called a "living fossil". The one in the video is a female and about 5 feet long, and it unfortunately went to the big fishery in the sky shortly after being moved into a seawater pool where the video was shot. Per an official of the park:

"We believe moving pictures of a live specimen are extremely rare... They live between 1,968 and 3,280 feet (600 and 1,000 meters) under the water, which is deeper than humans can go... We think it may have come close to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because it was in shallow waters."

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