What a bizarre looking creature! This is a Goblin Shark and is considered to be a living fossil due to its resemblance of prehistoric sharks. It was captured last month when it became tangled in fishing nets. It had wandered into a bay. Usually Goblin Sharks live in the deep ocean and occasionally dead ones wash up on shore.  Unfortunately this one died in a few days.  A few days prior to its capture, a live Frilled Shark was also captured in Japan, only to die within days.  The Frilled Shark is also a rare sight because it spends most of its time in waters thousands of feet deep. They believe it may have been found because it was weakened or ill. It died within a few hours after being captured.