To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A rare and rather… unique-looking shark has been spotted in the wild for the first time. Mitsukurina owstoni, otherwise known by the unfortunate name ‘goblin shark’, is a grotesque, deep-sea shark with a long, spearlike snout. These elusive sharks, which live thousands of feet underwater in total darkness, served as the inspiration for the terrifying aliens in Alien. But no one has ever seen goblin sharks doing something rather mundane – swimming in their natural habitat. Or even being alive in the water. That was until two different sets of researchers saw goblin sharks: one along the Tonga Trench and another by Jarvis Island, near Hawaii. The teams wrote in a paper published las