Comments on: Freakish, Caribou-Eating Creature Haunts the Arctic Deep

By: margaret lobera

margaret lobera — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:48:30 +0000

can a Greenland shark live in fresh water. and if so where were they sighted?

By: Ed Kellins

Ed Kellins — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:31:17 +0000

Actually there has been a documentary on the Greenland Shark, several have been caught over the years on the Saguenay River in Quebec, Canada. The unique thing about this river is that since it empties into the St Lawrence River, at a point where it contains a large percentage of salt water. The Saguenay is fresh water on top and salt water in it’s depths. The Greenland Shark is usually caught in the winter when the water is colder… Hope this answers some of the above questions, the film is called “Jurassic Shark (2000) documentary by Jacinth O’Donnell”

By: Madness

Madness — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:20:11 +0000

Sounds awefully ‘tabloidy’ to me. Maybe this article would better suit The Enquirer. I would have liked more science and less myth. Interesting none the less.

By: Sheldon Valeda

Sheldon Valeda — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:22:41 +0000

Deep sea sharks ambushing land mammals seems highly unlikely. Crocodiles can wait for mammals to stop for a drink, but obviously caribou, dogs, and horses, won’t be drinking from any body of salt water! If these sharks are major scavengers, which seems likely if they are blind, they may come across mammal carcasses on occasion, I suppose.

By: teemotee

teemotee — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:29:31 +0000

I don’t know about the myth, but that sure sounds like it is a real creature from my peoples who have “described” this big fish.In fact there are alot of myths that my people have I believe some but this shark is defenitely the skaluguak.

By: Lizzie Buchen

Lizzie Buchen — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:08:10 +0000

Thanks for the correction Alexina.

Good question Bruce. The shark’s range apparently extends from the Arctic and Northern Europe down to Georgia (the country). Maybe a horse was thrown overboard from a ship, a la horse latitudes, dropping a nice equine carcass in the shark’s path? Or perhaps the sharks can attack horses crocodile style, as has been proposed for caribou.

But no one really knows much about the sharks’ behavior—it isn’t even known whether they catch live seals, or just eat them when they’ve already died. Hopefully this research will shed some light on these bizarre beasts.

By: Alexina Kublu

Alexina Kublu — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:49 +0000

Actually the Inuktitut name for the shark is iqalugjuaq. Although the name seems to literally mean ‘big fish’ it is the lexical term for shark

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:37 +0000

Where, pray tell, would a bottom feeding shark find a horse in the eastern arctic?