Saturday, June 25, 2011

Freak Shark Puzzles Scientists




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.


5 comments:

Nathan Roberts said...

If you happen to talk to the fisherman that owns this this shark, I am very interested in buying it, and I would pay well for it. I collect teratological animal specimens, and would love to have the shark for the collection. My name is Nathan, and I can be reached at batcountrybooks@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

he looks like george w bush

Bob said...

Except that George W has two eyes - the other one is up his other end...

Anonymous said...

Alot of my friends and famiily are interested to know if it lived and if so, is it still alive? It would be wonderful to see it in person :))

Anonymous said...

i think that it is cute and if it was cut out of the mother than i can see how it would look diff i mean hello people think about it when humans have premature babies they have a chance of coming out with problems and being disformed, hell even babies that r full term