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  • NARRATOR: Out in the deep, the hunters look even stranger.

  • [dramatic music]

  • In the eternal nights of the abyss, fins and teeth.

  • A goblin shark.

  • It has a nose for prey in the dark

  • and knows just how to use it.

  • Most goblin sharks are 10 to 12 feet long,

  • but they can grow much bigger, sluggish until they attack.

  • [crunching]

  • These are the fastest fish jaws in the ocean.

  • 10 feet per second.

  • So fast they can only be seen in slow motion.

  • Only the goblin has a jaw that whips

  • forward like a slingshot, an ancient weapon

  • that works even today.

  • [crunching]

NARRATOR: Out in the deep, the hunters look even stranger.

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