A rare frilled shark, a species dating back 80 million years, was caught in a fishing trawler last month off the coast of Victoria, Australia. It’s known as a ‘living fossil’ according to the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA).

“It’s a freaky thing,” Simon Boag, chief executive officer at SETFIA told Australia’s ABC Rural. “I don’t think you would want to show it to little children before they went to bed.”

The frilled shark bares only a small resemblance to modern day sharks. It has a large jaw filled with approximately 300 teeth arranged in 25 rows and a long, eel-like body. The body can grow up to six feet long and ends in a small, shark-like tail. The creature gets its name from its distinct six pairs of fringed gills.

Skipper David Guillot found the creature while fishing for for sea perch, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

“I’ve been at sea for 30 years and I’ve never seen a shark look like that,” Guillot told radio station 3AW Drive. “The head on it was like something out of a horror movie. It was quite horrific looking.”

The shark was caught approximately 2,300 feet beneath the surface, shallower depths than the creature is typically found. Mark Meekan, biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, told the Herald that the frilled shark is most likely to be found in cool, temperate waters.

“There are usually three main spots it is found, in waters off New Zealand, near Japan and along the coast of the British Isles, down through Spain and into northern Africa. However, there are some maps that show distributions that encompass the Victorian coast,” Meekan told the Herald.

The shark was offered as a specimen to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, but it declined because it was already in possession of a specimen. It is believed to have been sold.