In August 2020, a strange, long-nosed creature washed up on a beach in Greece and caught the attention of a passerby. Giannis Papadakis photographed the specimen and sent it to a team of scientists, who identified it as a remarkably preserved juvenile goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni).
This was an extraordinary discovery — nobody had ever spotted this enigmatic deep-sea species in the Mediterranean before.
