Story highlights It has a mouth packed full of needle-like teeth and a body like an eel's

The shark is known to live at extreme depths

(CNN) It looks like something out of "Alien" but has more in common with "Jurassic Park."

It's a rare frilled shark that has been caught by a fisherman in Australia, where no one remembers ever seeing one caught before.

With a mouth packed full of needle-like teeth and a body like an eel's, the 6-foot-long frilled shark is sometimes described as a fish "fossil" that dates back 80 million years.

David Guillot says that it's like nothing he or his fellow fisherman have ever seen in the deep waters in Australia's southwest.

"It was really prehistoric-looking, freaky really," Guillot said.

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