The Italian sailors pull in the nets and put the shark on deck. Within a minute, most of the team members demanded to release the creature back into the water: the shark’s head was like that of another animal.
Fishermen have managed to catch a strange creature near the small island of Elba. The shark has already been caught almost at the pier, which also surprised sailors – usually predators stay further from the coast. Outwardly, the creature resembled a disproportionately large shark.
His face resembled a pig’s head, forcing anglers to let go of their prey. Many thought they were dealing with a strange mutant. The sailors managed to take a few photos and showed them to the local aquarium staff. He quickly understood the situation. It turned out that the fishermen caught not a mutant, but an extremely rare fish.
«It’s Oxynotus centrina. It is not known how he got into the shallow waters, the centrins remain all their life at a depth of 700 to 800 meters,” said Mario Bertolucci, an employee of the aquarium. Ordinary centrines are listed in the Red Book. The fishermen were lucky to have managed to release their prey into the ocean.
