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NOW THIS IS an interesting-looking — and incredibly rare — creature.
With a bulbous head and 50 rows of tiny teeth, the 66th megamouth shark ever seen in the world washed ashore on the morning of 28 January in Pio Duran, Albay, the Philippines, according to Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines (some say this is only the 60th confirmed sighting).
The megamouth shark is so uncommon that until recently, some still considered it a cryptid, a creature so rare that it couldn’t be confirmed by science.
And while the megamouth was first confirmed to exist in 1976 after being accidentally dragged up by a US Navy vessel, it’s still “one of the most rarely seen species of sharks,” marine biologist David Shiffman previously told Business Insider in an email. (Shiffman confirmed to Business Insider that this latest specimen did indeed absolutely appear to be a megamouth.)
This one is a 4.6 metre long male, larger than some estimates for the maximum size of the male members of the species, though megamouths are some of the biggest sharks known.
Megachasma pelagios
And despite the many tiny teeth possessed by Megachasma pelagios, a scientific name that means “giant mouth of the deep,” this shark is one of the three that feed on plankton, potentially attracted by its glowing bioluminescent mouth. The other two plankton feeders are the basking shark and whale shark.
Its strange appearance might look scary to some, but unless you’re plankton, it’s totally safe.
This one is the 15th of these creatures found in the Philippines, the second-most seen in any country (behind Japan), though megamouths have been spotted all over the world.
From what we know based on a shark that scientists were able to track off the California coast in 1990, megamouths seem to spend most of the day about 400 or 500 meters below the surface. At night they rise up along with many other creatures, most likely to feed.
Here’s a video of a specimen found in Japan being dissected by scientists (be warned, it gets a little bit graphic from roughly 40 seconds in):
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Will it be compatible with Playstation 1
Wait for the nudie scenes on GTA. Up ya boyo
Wait for the nudie parts. In GTA up ya boyo
Ya can say that again
O.R for the PC or the Sony P.M version… either way VR is coming :)
I don’t own a PS4 but I want one anyway – they just look cool.
Careful what you wish for…..got mine at launch and it has been gathering dust since. Much more happening on the aul’ ps3
Complete rip off of ocullous rift
Nope. They’ve said that they’ve been working on it for a few years. No doubt oculus rift gave them the kick they needed to reveal it.
Besides, even if it was a rip off, what’s your point?
Complete rip off of virtual boy
Stop they all robbed the idea off lawnmower man anyways!
WHOOO 90 degree vision , not much use
Oculus has had a huge head start with Dev kits in the market for over a year with all industries from military to NASA currently developing with them. Don’t think Oculus need to worry about the big bad Sony coming to market
I hope oculus do really well. Apparently the tech is quite similar in both, so they’ll both help push VR. Hopefully the devices won’t be restricted to single platforms.
I know Oculus will work on several platforms they are even developing it to work on Android. I was going to buy the dev kit but I’m holding off now for the consumer version
Funny though, when X1 was announced with Kinect as standard, people complained they just wanted a controller and play the traditional way…. And to sit playing it….
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