I searched goblin shark to see if they looked different than I remembered and they don't. Am I getting untrustworthy results trying to find regular alive shark or do people draw them more fucked up than I can imagine?
they're usually drawn based on this specimen:
or sometimes this one if you're nasty:
both of these are super duper dead!
Alive goblin sharks are white in colour and don't have their jaws popped out, which is something they CAN do but not something they do all the time. Here are some examples of live ones! They do still look freaky, but they don't look like an explosively decompressed corpse:
they're kind of just normal sharks!
(images from various sightings, gifs and end still from this video of a (very briefly) captured specimen at the Tokyo Sea Life Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRAgfLTE1U)













