Viper dogfish, Trigonognathus kabeyai, are a deep-sea dwelling type of small shark. Five were recently dredged up as bycatch off the coast of Taiwan. The sharks were found during a routine fish ...

Four of the sharks — known as viper dogfish (Trigonognathus kabeyai) — died immediately, but one survived its capture for 24 hours, until it, too, perished, according to Taiwan News.

Viver dogfish sharks have rarely been found, but when they have, it's been near Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii. In 2018, five of the sharks were found along Taiwan's coast, according to Newsweek ...