Also, on behalf of whoever made Ghost Shark (2013), what the hell?
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Click here to view original GIFThe first-ever video footage of a ghost shark.
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So, the ancient brain of a symmoriiform looked a lot like a ghost shark brain.
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Well, it's technically called a "pointy-nosed blue ratfish" (hydrolagus trolli), but isn't "ghost shark" so much catchier?
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For the first time ever, scientists have captured video footage of a pointy-nosed blue chimaera (aka ratfish), a species of ghost shark, hanging out in its natural environment.
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Scientists have struggled to trace the ghost shark family tree owing to a dearth of fossilized remains; their bodies are made of cartilage, which doesn't preserve as well as bone.
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Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently published the findings of a remotely-manned videography mission, which includes what's believed to the the only images of the ghost shark in its natural habitat.
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Back in 2009, researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured footage of a ghost shark in the Gulf of California, and it marked the first time this particular type of chimaera was captured on film.
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The deep sea is notorious for producing a menagerie of otherworldly creatures, exemplified by the elusive chimaera, or "ghost shark," as it has been nicknamed (not to be confused with the 2013 sharksploitation filmGhost Shark directed by Griff Furst).
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It also features Javier Bardem as an undead Spanish Navy commander, two young pretty people who look vaguely like Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley but aren't, yet another plot point involving the ocean suddenly being a steep cliff instead of a flat body of water, and a flying ghost shark.
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The researchers say it's possible that the specimen belongs to an entirely new species of ghost shark, but the only way to know will be to capture one and bring it up to the surface for analysis—not an easy task given its size, deep habitat, and the fact that these animals are endangered.
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In 2012, Danielle returned to acting and appeared in Dead Kansas, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws and Till Morning.
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The pale ghost shark (Hydrolagus bemisi) is a shortnose chimaera of the family Chimaeridae. It is endemic to New Zealand waters.
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The New Zealand Department of Conservation has classified the Australian ghost shark as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier "Conservation Dependent, Increasing" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
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In June 2018 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the pale ghost shark as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier "Conservation Dependent " under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
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A supposed sequel, Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws, was released on 1 July 2015, but the two movies are unrelated in terms of narrative other than both being films featuring killer sharks.
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It also has a venomous spine in front of its dorsal fin, which is used in defense. Ghost Shark(Hydrolagus trolli)/ Females mature around in body length and males at . The species is oviparous.
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Thomas Francis Murphy is an American actor. He became known for his roles in the television series True Detective and The Walking Dead, the film Leatherheads, the Syfy original film Ghost Shark, and the 2010 short film Tracks.
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Davis has been acting since childhood. He spent five years with the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival, culminating with the critically acclaimed role of Hamlet in 2012. Davis then transitioned into screen acting. Based out of New Orleans, Davis starred in many original films for MTV and Syfy, including Ghost Shark, Leprechaun's Revenge, Ozark Sharks, and several others.
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Hydrolagus pallidus is a marine species of fish in the family Chimaeridae found in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, specifically near Iceland and the Canary Islands. It is commonly known as the pale chimaera or pale ghost shark, although it is not a true shark. Its natural habitat is deepwater seas and near the mid-Atlantic ridge. H. pallidus is found at a depth range of 800 - 3650 m.EOL.
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One of the rare mixed to positive reviews for Ghost Shark came from Horrornews.net, with the film given a five out of ten score and labeled as featuring both "[s]pecial effects that would make a film student cringe" but also a "well experienced cast mixed with fresh faced and eager newcomers." The film was compared, both positively and negatively, to an episode of one of the Scooby-Doo cartoons.
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Ghost Shark is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed for the Syfy television network by Griff Furst. With Furst joined by Paul A. Birkett and Eric Forsberg for screenwriting, the film premiered on Syfy on August 22, 2013. Despite being panned critically, the movie had some success attracting attention from social media due to its fantastical premise, with websites such as Vulture.com commenting on moments from the film.
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When a great white shark eats the potential catch of a sport fisherman, the man and his daughter violently retaliate by sadistically torturing and killing the shark, whose corpse then sinks to the bottom of an underwater cave and is subsequently resurrected as a ghost shark due to the cave's mysterious paranormal properties. Now hungry for revenge, the ghost shark eats his redneck killers along with the captain of their boat, eventually setting its sights on the rest of the local community in the seaside town of Smallport, Florida. Due to the great white's new spectral form, it can attack and kill anyone as long as there is even the smallest amount of water nearby, including coming out of a swimming pool, a bathtub, a bucket, a metal pipe, and even a drinking cup, killing many people in several locations. Though the terror is seemingly out of control, a group of young people trying to find answers end up having their pleas ignored.
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Chimaera bahamaensis, commonly known as the Bahamas ghost shark, is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It is found in North Atlantic Ocean around the Bahamas, specifically it has been found east of Andros Island. Chimaera bahamaensi is known to inhabit marine waters from a depth range of – . It is one of the most recently described members of the genus Chimaera and to date only a single specimen has been found.
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She also played Jill in the 2008 horror film, Fading of the Cries. Rosman appeared in four episodes of Brenda Hampton's teen drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager playing Zoe, a student at Grant High School who sleeps with Ricky to get back at Adrian for having sex with Zoe's boyfriend Mac. In 2013, she co-starred in the 2013 horror film Beneath, and in the 2013 television film Ghost Shark. Rosman posed for Maxim magazine in September 2013.
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Critical reception for Ghost Shark has been predominantly negative. The film holds a rating of 29% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on seven reviews. For example, critic Jim Vorel wrote for Paste blasting the film as "a mind-numbing movie" featuring severe problems "[f]rom its performances to its horrendous execution in the editing room". He concluded, "the film violates the most crucial rule of trashy filmmaking— you can be stupid, but don’t be boring." Vorel particularly criticized the fact that the character of Cicily, played by Sloane Coe, is filmed in a sexually suggestive manner in several scenes despite the fact that she's identified as being too young to have a driver’s license (and is presumably under the age of consent).
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