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Flaring gills give this species its name, this frilled shark is swimming at Japan’s Awashima Marine Park. These frilled sharks are very rare and live many thousands of feet under the water and thus sighting them is not easy.

Spotted by a fisher on January 21, this 5.3-foot (160-centimeter) shark was transferred to the marine park, where it was placed in a seawater pool.

“We think it may have come to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because it was in shallow waters,” a park official told the Reuters news service.

But the real reason for its coming tot the surface may never be known, because it died just hours after it was caught.

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