The toy “shows a great similarity to the specimen in the published image,” said Jürgen Pollerspöck, an independent shark researcher and an author of the paper that presented the doubts about ...

(Update 3/24/2023: The scientists behind the original paper describing the supposed ... But if it’s actually a picture of a toy goblin shark, as multiple sources suggest, it’s a cautionary ...

In May 2022, based only on that image and a brief description from Papadakis, the researchers included the shark sighting in a scientific paper about ... goblin shark toy that looked suspiciously ...