Megamouth Shark Washes Up On A Philippine Beach And It's Kind Of Cute

If it's named after a DreamWorks character, it has to adorable, right?

As you may or may not have heard, a rare megamouth shark washed up ashore in the Philippines.

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People have been like, "OMG SO SCARY" and "JULES VERNE FEVER DREAM TBH," but it's kind of adorable actually?

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The dead megamouth shark was found in Pio Duran, Albay. It was nicknamed "Toothless," after its resemblance to the character in the How to Train Your Dragon movies.

See? Cute!

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But really, for a one-ton, fifteen-foot long creature from the deep, it's really not all that bad.

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Megamouths feed primarily on plankton in the deep sea, using its bioluminescent mouth (read: glowing jaws) to attract its prey. There have been 15 sightings of megamouths in the Philippines — second only to Japan — and Toothless is reportedly the 66th time a megamouth has been found.

(Just a reminder that the megamouth shark rubs fins with creatures like this, so it could be worse.)

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Even scientists have difficulty believing that it's a real creature. The species has been sighted so rarely that some still classify it as a cryptid.

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The megamouth Toothless was brought over to the Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to be examined and preserved.

R.I.P. Toothless. <3

H/t ABS-CBN.