'Pig-faced' shark caught by sailors in Italy, pics go viral

A deep-sea creature with the body of a shark and the face of a pig was pulled out of the water by Italian naval officers. It was spotted on the naval vessel floating in the waters at the Darsena Medicea marina in Portoferraio. It was identified as an extremely rare Angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), sometimes known as a pig-faced shark.

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