Beautiful Animals

After discovering a host of bizarre creatures of the deep near Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia's national science agency CSIRO has found something quite surprising in the depths of the watery abyss: a shark graveyard, full of fossilized teeth, some millions of years old

Initially, researchers thought they'd pulled up a net full of disappointing sediment and manganese nodules. Until they had a closer look.

"It was amazing, it really was," Museums Victoria Research Institute collections officer Dianne Bray tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

"Not all were fossils, some were relatively recent mako sharks and two species of great white shark relatives."