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This beast puts “Jaws” to shame.

A massive bluntnose sixgill shark was captured on video lurching toward a submarine that was filming it. The shark was about 20 feet long — nearly twice the size of the submersible, according to the OceanX research crew.

In the video, which was filmed on a expedition off the coast of the Bahamas, the female shark can be seen emerging from the depths of the ocean — and charging toward the submarine, gnashing her pearly whites and giving them a wild-eyed look through the window.

Not much is known about the elusive bluntnose sixgill sharks, since they live so deep in the ocean. They’re considered a dominant predator of the deep sea ecosystem. Though they’re not the largest shark species — that title goes to their extinct cousin, the Megalodon — they predate most dinosaurs, according to the researchers who captured the video from OceanX.

It’s also technically not the oldest shark alive. Scientists think a Greenland shark caught in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2017 was about 512 years old.

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Images captured by OceanX researchers show the massive jaws of the elusive bluntnose sixgill shark opening up before the submarine. OceanX
Though they're not the largest shark species -- that title goes to their extinct cousin, the Megalodon -- they predate most dinosaurs,OceanX
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Not much is known about the elusive bluntnose sixgill sharks, since they live so deep in the oceanOceanX
The shark's eye was captured peering into the submarine. OceanX
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Still, the researchers from OceanX — who partnered on the mission with Bloomberg Philanthropies, Florida State University, Cape Eleuthera Institute and Moore Charitable Foundation — were audibly wowed by the deep-sea creature, which they set out to find and attach satellite tags on during this expedition.

Though they didn’t nab the one in the video, they were able to successfully tag another shark.

“This is a monster,” one of the scientists says in the video, as the shark inspects the tagging gun at the bottom of the sub.

Also in post-Shark Week news: The OceanX team is asking the public to help name its new ship, currently named Alucia2, which will be featured in a series on the NatGeo channel. The person who submits the winning name gets a prize: a sweet submarine dive.

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