Blutnose sixgill shark eats the bait the team laid out. (Credit: OceanX, Florida State University) Bluntnose sixgill sharks are thought to have lifespans approaching 80 years and could grow to 16 ...

5:50: a massive sixgill shark, perhaps 16 feet long (5 meters), visits the OceanX submersible. 7:15: Gaze into the cryptic green eye of a sixgill shark. 8:30: Naylor, ever coolly, tags a sixgill.

Scientists tag deep-sea shark hundreds of feet underwater—a first. To better study the bluntnose sixgill, scientists had to figure out how to fire a speargun from a submarine.

Unlike the charismatic sharks often spotted near the surface -- hammerheads, great whites, and tiger sharks -- the sixgill spends most of its life in the deep ocean, some 700 feet to 3,200 feet ...

After decades of looking for it, scientists have discovered a new species of shark, one whose ancestors lived 250 million years ago.. Appropriately dubbed Atlantic sixgill shark, the Hexanchus ...

According to the Florida Museum's International Shark Attack File, there's been only one documented attack on a human since the 1500s, and the bluntnose was provoked. This was the perfect look-but ...

The Bluntnose sixgill shark is not considered a significant threat to humans. To watch the full interview with members of the MaST Center, click the video player above.

Bluntnose sixgill sharks can be found all over the world, in both tropical and temperate waters. They are a highly migratory species that typically inhabits waters at depths of at least 300 feet.

A "monster" shark, believed to be the biggest sixgill ever caught on a fishing rod in Europe, has been hooked off the Irish coast at County Clare.. The huge fish was estimated to be about 7.5m ...

“This shark is super rare to encounter as a diver because they normally live as deep as 2500m,” Endrizzi wrote. “On top of that, there is no record of a bluntnose sixgill shark ever in the ...