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Update on the Freak Shark
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.
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Cyclops Shark Update
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".
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One eye
"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
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Our "Cyclops Shark" has gone international
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]
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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I'm looking for "verified".
"Clever use of latex" is the best description I've seen.
No worries
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One-Eyed Anomaly
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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I dated a girl who looked just like that. What's the big deal, anyway?
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| Quote: | 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? 
Bob Durrell
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I stand corrected.
Fascinating!
No worries
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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.
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| Quote: | 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?
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looks like a one-eyed snake....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | 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
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Inbreeding? |
More likely, it was a stream used to cool down some nuclear power plant or other.
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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so it takes a really ugly one eyed shark to get the world talking about Mexico in a postive light ..... we' ll take it !!
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Reminds me of a Harry Potter movie!
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