BajaNomad - One eyed shark???

One eyed shark???

JESSE - 4-24-2011 at 08:11 PM

Does anyone know what it is??

briantroy - 4-24-2011 at 09:24 PM

Nice! Freaky nice. Like P.T. used to say "There is one born evey minute."

stevelaubly - 4-24-2011 at 09:31 PM

I've heard of the "One-eyed Trouser Trout" But what the hell is that???

Skipjack Joe - 4-24-2011 at 09:41 PM

"E.T. go home"

bajamigo - 4-24-2011 at 09:45 PM

Clever use of latex.

JESSE - 4-24-2011 at 09:52 PM

Could this be a new species? or just some kind of deformity? fishermen claim its not the 1st time they seen one of these.

briantroy - 4-24-2011 at 09:56 PM

Serious? Anyone want to buy some ejido land?

JESSE - 4-24-2011 at 10:04 PM

BooJumMan - 4-24-2011 at 10:07 PM

I think it was born with a birth defect... I am fairly certain there aren't any naturally occurring single-eyed animals.

Very cool though! My first reaction was that it was a hoax!

longlegsinlapaz - 4-24-2011 at 10:11 PM

Jesse, I'm not ordering any fish at your place in the foreseeable future! :lol:

JESSE - 4-24-2011 at 10:16 PM

TheColoradoDude - 4-24-2011 at 10:17 PM

Suspicious smirk on guy with white shirt

JESSE - 4-24-2011 at 10:18 PM

I saw it, it was real.

BajaGringo - 4-24-2011 at 10:23 PM

Probably related to this guy...

TheColoradoDude - 4-24-2011 at 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by JESSE
I saw it, it was real.

Well then; "LIKE ZOINKS"!!!

Cypress - 4-25-2011 at 04:42 AM

Holy Toledo! That radiation from Japan's already reached Baja!

mtgoat666 - 4-25-2011 at 05:17 AM

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Originally posted by JESSE
Could this be a new species? or just some kind of deformity? fishermen claim its not the 1st time they seen one of these.

ya, sure, you betcha!

mtgoat666 - 4-25-2011 at 05:19 AM

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Originally posted by JESSE
Does anyone know what it is??

did you dissect it? did you eat it?

ELINVESTIG8R - 4-25-2011 at 06:04 AM

I am no zealot in environmental issues, but this deformity is probably the result of toxic pollutants being generated by the over development of Baja California which may be illegally emptied into the ocean.

mcfez - 4-25-2011 at 07:42 AM

WOW! That's a eye popping photo!
Good replacement for the bathroom rubber duckee

[Edited on 4-25-2011 by mcfez]

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Lauriboats - 4-25-2011 at 08:44 AM

Ugly!

castaway$ - 4-25-2011 at 09:30 AM

I'm thinking Hoax! Look at the eyeball I have never seen a shark with an eye like a humans, all of the shark eyeballs I have seen were just black.

Timo1 - 4-25-2011 at 12:17 PM

Ahh yes...the cyclops shark

well documented in Atlantian history

:lol:

Curt63 - 4-25-2011 at 05:24 PM

My friend Brian (a shark researcher) at Scripps is calling BS.

From My Days As a Marine Biologist

Gypsy Jan - 4-25-2011 at 05:55 PM

Bring it in.

Less talking, more dissection.

Then we have a platform for argument.

JESSE - 4-25-2011 at 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by Curt63
My friend Brian (a shark researcher) at Scripps is calling BS.

Trust me, i saw it, i touched it, it was real. Theres no way a couple of fishermen would have made something as real as that.

Ken Bondy - 4-25-2011 at 06:53 PM

Jesse do you know the details of where this animal was taken? Location, depth, net, hook and line, etc?

JESSE - 4-25-2011 at 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Jesse do you know the details of where this animal was taken? Location, depth, net, hook and line, etc?

It was taken in el sargento, didn't ask about depth or details on how it was caught. Seems to me it was a sort of embryo.

Ken Bondy - 4-25-2011 at 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by JESSE

Quote:

Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Jesse do you know the details of where this animal was taken? Location, depth, net, hook and line, etc?

It was taken in el sargento, didn't ask about depth or details on how it was caught. Seems to me it was a sort of embryo.

The color and lack of dermal denticles strongly suggests an embryo.

surfdoc - 4-26-2011 at 10:14 AM

This should get interesting....

Maybe put it in a burlap bag and throw it into Northern Idaho

:spingrin:

It's a Fake

jenny.navarrette - 4-26-2011 at 11:11 AM

JESSE - 4-26-2011 at 11:25 AM

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Originally posted by jenny.navarrette

Nope, the gills are right under the guys finger, i saw them.

choyero - 4-26-2011 at 11:52 AM

You can see the gills in the 1st photo.

Martyman - 4-26-2011 at 03:39 PM

one eyed mini sperm whale

BajaSerg - 4-26-2011 at 03:43 PM

:lol:

JESSE - 4-26-2011 at 04:01 PM

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

slimshady - 4-26-2011 at 06:40 PM

With lemon and a dab of salt it will taste great.

mcfez - 4-26-2011 at 06:55 PM

Call up Cypress ......he'll bag it up and ditch that pup shark

Bajatripper - 4-27-2011 at 08:54 AM

I did a quick Internet search for one-eyed sharks. Stories of people seeing one-eyed sharks are almost common. But, under a search for photos of such creatures, I came up empty.

Jesse, if this is for real (and I did see some photos of sharks, such as the blue-eyed shark, with similar-looking eyes), then perhaps you should look into getting some publicity of it. You might make your fishermen friends famous and spread a little wealth their way.

Cypress - 4-27-2011 at 10:34 AM

Sack him up! :lol:

BajaSerg - 4-27-2011 at 11:38 AM

its a Hoax! its done with photoshop :tumble:

[Edited on 4-28-2011 by BajaSerg]

marv sherrill - 4-28-2011 at 05:53 PM

The fins resemble a chimaera or ratfish - very priimitive shark relative - order Holocephali - It only has one gill opening - the tail should give it away - very long rat-like tail with a small lower lobe -It usually has an elongated snout - its bigger that most, so embryonic seems not to be an option. The elongated. almost ventral pectoral fins are also very characteristic The cyclops look, however, is undefined - I hope it is preservered somewhere. Marv

[Edited on 4-29-2011 by marv sherrill]

nbacc - 4-29-2011 at 06:01 AM

Good photoshop use!!! Nancy

cjesme - 4-29-2011 at 08:24 AM

LOL, good one Mcfez!!

TheColoradoDude - 5-8-2011 at 11:45 AM

What was the verdict on this? Real or flakey?

mcfez - 5-8-2011 at 02:01 PM

I dunno. I heard it's eye sight is poor....so I sent these down there.

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TheColoradoDude - 5-8-2011 at 10:01 PM

Jajajaja. Good one!

lachicana - 5-9-2011 at 06:41 AM

Panga fisherman in Los Planes have been catching a few of these about three weeks ago according to the guy who buys and sells fish from there!

El Camote - 5-9-2011 at 11:27 AM

Some people think that fish is perfectly normal...

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durrelllrobert - 5-9-2011 at 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaSerg
its a Hoax! its done with photoshop :tumble:

[Edited on 4-28-2011 by BajaSerg]

next, I suppose you will tell me that my pet frog is a hoax:

bajajurel - 5-9-2011 at 08:55 PM

Boy, you guys are really bored or you should be working for Dream Works Studio. I guess it's better than drinking yourself to death in paradise. I got a kick out of your thread!

One eye

tehag - 5-10-2011 at 05:51 AM

Looks a lot like either side of a hammerhead or bonnet shark's face with some fiddling. Did you handle it?

oxxo - 5-10-2011 at 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tehag
Looks a lot like either side of a hammerhead or bonnet shark's face with some fiddling. Did you handle it?

That's what she said!

El Camote - 5-10-2011 at 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by oxxo

Quote:

Originally posted by tehag
Looks a lot like either side of a hammerhead or bonnet shark's face with some fiddling. Did you handle it?

That's what she said!

Iflyfish - 5-10-2011 at 08:23 PM

Don't any of you read Skeet's posts?? Bet he has spent some time in your neck of the woods.

Does it vibrate? I have seen some odd s... in the big city, just sayin'.

Iflyfish

cjesme - 5-17-2011 at 07:53 AM

I posted this on y face book and I am getting a great laugh from it. Just the reactions are hilarious. I still don't know if it is real but it's a great joke if it isn't!
:yes:

Cousins?

El Camote - 5-17-2011 at 08:33 AM

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Freak Shark Puzzles Scientists

BajaNews - 7-2-2011 at 07:40 AM

http://piscesfleet.blogspot.com/2011/06/freak-shark-puzzles-...

A few days ago I was in the office talking to some guys, who had won a fishing trip from Pisces after taking first place in the Asupesca Speafishing Tournament held in La Paz in April. In a casual conversation one of the anglers mentioned a strange shark that he had seen in La Paz. He whipped his camera out and showed me a photo of a very weird, almost unbelievable animal. He told me that a commercial fisheman had caught it. That said, we set off on the hunt for more information. Apparently this is a bull shark fetus. The mother who must have been a pretty large creature herself, when cut open, had this strange baby inside of her. So far the fisherman has not been willing to give it up for science but we were pleased to at least get these photos which we showed to a couple of scientists attending the dorado forum in Cabo yesterday. They said they had never seen anything like it and we will forward the images to a shark expert.

Bizarre-looking shark caught in Sea of Cortez baffles scientists

BajaNews - 7-2-2011 at 07:43 AM

http://www.petethomasoutdoors.com/2011/06/bizarre-looking-sh...

Jun 27, 2011

Lots of odd creatures come from the sea, and add to the list a one-eyed bull shark fetus that was removed from the body of its captured mother recently off La Paz, Mexico, in the Sea of Cortez.

A brief story about the shark is on the Pisces Sportfishing blog. Pete Thomas Outdoors shared the top image with two shark experts in California and both were skeptical at first, suggesting it was some kind of hoax.

One of them jokingly identified the species as a "Cycloptomus" because of a single eye -- if it is, in fact, an actual eye -- located just above the mouth.

But Tracy Ehrenberg, general manager at Pisces Sportfising, has been in touch with renowned shark expert Felipe Galvan, who has seen the shark and has even produced a paper on the discovery.

The paper is under scientific review. More information will be shared here when it becomes available.

BooJumMan - 7-2-2011 at 07:43 AM

Hmm interesting, so it was a fetus! Strange.

Update on the Freak Shark

BajaNews - 7-2-2011 at 07:46 AM

http://piscesfleet.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-freak-shar...

June 27, 2011

Shark expert Felipe Galvan sent us an e-mail saying he has seen this shark and tried to buy it from the fisherman, who was unwilling to part with it, however he did agree for the scientists to do some studies on the shark. At first they thought the "eye" might have been fused nasal cavities, but now they are going to do some testing to see if the "eye" is actually that, or if it is part of the tissue. They already have a scientific manuscript that is under revision for publication. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available.

Cyclops Shark Update

BajaNews - 7-3-2011 at 07:12 PM

http://piscesfleet.blogspot.com/2011/07/cyclops-shark-update...

The interest in the weird shark has been amazing, thousands of people have seen the photos and we have been contacted by different organizations, publications and individuals from around the world. There are a lot skeptics but we assure you that this is real.

We just spoke to the commercial fisherman who caught the bull shark that had the albino one-eyed baby inside of it and he filled in some of the details for us. The mother bull shark was caught on what is known locally as a "simplera", this is a large cork buoy which is attached to a sack of sand as an anchor to keep it on the bottom, a smaller buoy is then attached horizontally to the main buoy by a line, with a smaller vertical line hanging down with a hook on it. The hook was baited with ballyhoo. The fisherman set the equipment up off of Isla Cerralvo then went back later to see what he had caught. When they reached this "simplera" and brought it up there was a dead female bullshark that weighed 286 lbs and was almost ten feet long. Back at the beach where the shark was filleted they found ten pups inside of her. All of them normal except for the one posted here, which was albino and had the one "eye". The fisherman told me that this one would have been born first, due to the position it was in -first in line at the exit, but that he doubted that it would have survived. Scientists currently have it in their possession and are performing tests.

It's sad to hear of this large female with pups inside killed, but this was taken by a commercial fishing skiff (panga) and this is how the fisherman makes a living to take care of his family. All parts of the shark are used, including the skin. The meat is salted and sent to mainland Mexico where it is usually sold as bacalo or "cod".

One eye

mcfez - 10-15-2011 at 06:46 AM

"Scientists currently have it in their possession and are performing tests".

What ever happen to this story......never read a scientific confirmation of this wild story from Hollywood Special Effects

Our "Cyclops Shark" has gone international

Bajatripper - 10-18-2011 at 02:11 PM

I'm sure most of us will remember Jesse's photos of the one-eyed shark whose mother was caught by fishermen at El Sargento, BCS.

Well, now it's internationally famous:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/18/cyclops-shark-found...

Jesse, you've been vindicated.

[Edited on 10-18-2011 by Bajatripper]

Curt63 - 10-18-2011 at 02:23 PM

I'm looking for "verified".

"Clever use of latex" is the best description I've seen.

One-Eyed Anomaly

BajaNews - 10-18-2011 at 09:22 PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111...

By Christine Dell'Amore
October 13, 2011

Talk about a one-of-a-kind discovery—an extremely rare cyclops shark has been confirmed in Mexico, new research shows.

The 22-inch-long (56-centimeter-long) fetus has a single, functioning eye at the front of its head—the hallmark of a congenital condition called cyclopia, which occurs in several animal species, including humans.

Earlier this year fisher Enrique Lucero León legally caught a pregnant dusky shark near Cerralvo Island in the Gulf of California. When León cut open his catch, he found the odd-looking male embryo along with its nine normal siblings. "He said, That's incredible—wow," said biologist Felipe Galván-Magaña, of the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico.

Once Galván-Magaña and colleague Marcela Bejarano-Álvarez heard about the discovery—which was put on Facebook—the team got León's permission to borrow the shark for research. The scientists then x-rayed the fetus and reviewed previous research on cyclopia in other species to confirm that the find is indeed a cyclops shark.

Cyclops sharks have been documented by scientists a few times before, also as embryos, said Jim Gelsleichter, a shark biologist at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. The fact that none have been caught outside the womb suggests cyclops sharks don't survive long in the wild.

Overall, finding such an unusual animal reinforces that scientists still have a lot to learn, Gelsleichter added.

"It's a humbling experience to realize you ain't seen it all yet."

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DENNIS - 10-19-2011 at 09:00 AM

I dated a girl who looked just like that. What's the big deal, anyway?

durrelllrobert - 10-19-2011 at 09:26 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
I dated a girl who looked just like that. What's the big deal, anyway?

...but what did she look like when you turned her over? :spingrin:

Curt63 - 10-19-2011 at 09:31 AM

I stand corrected.

Fascinating!

MitchMan - 10-19-2011 at 09:35 AM

About 15 years ago went to northern California to do some stream fishing for trout on opening day. 'While hiking on foot, came across a fish farm. There was a pool of live deformed fish, lots and lots of them. It was a disgusting sight. The deformities were sickening to look at, and the varieties of deformities were quite varied and many were intensely distorted. Just saying that mutations can take just about any unanticipated shape and configuration.

David K - 10-19-2011 at 09:39 AM

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Originally posted by MitchMan
About 15 years ago went to northern California to do some stream fishing for trout on opening day. 'While hiking on foot, came across a fish farm. There was a pool of live deformed fish, lots and lots of them. It was a disgusting sight. The deformities were sickening to look at, and the varieties of deformities were quite varied and many were intensely distorted. Just saying that mutations can take just about any unanticipated shape and configuration.

Inbreeding?

drzura - 10-19-2011 at 03:09 PM

looks like a one-eyed snake.... :yes:

Bajatripper - 10-22-2011 at 12:50 PM

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Originally posted by David K

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Inbreeding?

More likely, it was a stream used to cool down some nuclear power plant or other.

BajaBlanca - 10-22-2011 at 05:25 PM

so it takes a really ugly one eyed shark to get the world talking about Mexico in a postive light ..... we' ll take it !!

David K - 10-22-2011 at 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by BajaSerg
:lol:

Reminds me of a Harry Potter movie! :lol: