{"id":638486,"date":"2026-06-14T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:17:14","slug":"footage-reveals-ugly-goblin-shark-alive-in-the-wild-for-first-time-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638486\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage reveals \u2018ugly\u2019 goblin shark alive in the wild for first time | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare Goblin shark has been filmed in its deep-ocean natural habitat for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Footage taken by a remotely operated vehicle in 2019 shows the creature, often called one of the ugliest on the planet, swimming at depths of 1,237 metres in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pacific-ocean\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ocean<\/a>, near Jarvis Island.<\/p>\n<p>The second sighting came in 2024, filmed at 1,997 metres in the Tonga Trench.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 footage had been deemed insignificant at the time, and it was only reanalysed by a researcher following the Tonga Trench sighting. Both sightings have been published in the Journal of Fish Biology.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharks<\/a> had only ever been seen alive after being hauled to the surface on a fishing line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare Goblin shark has been filmed in its deep-ocean natural habitat for the first time. Footage taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[211382,211381,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-638486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}