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Cyclops shark real, still no frickin' lasers
- From: news.com.au
- October 19, 2011
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A viral hit and the real thing, according to shark experts. Picture: Pisces Fleet Sportfishing
THE first question that comes to mind: Are fishermen that good at Photoshop?
The second: Why isn't it shooting lasers from its eye?
When Pisces Fleet Sportfishing posted on its blog this pic, skepticism was high. The one-eyed albino shark foetus was reportedly cut from the belly of a dusky shark by a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of California earlier this year.
It is, according to researchers, the real thing.
Shark expert Felipe Galvan Magana, of Mexico's Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias del Mar, told the Pisces Fleet Sportfishing: "This is extremely rare. As far as I know, less than 50 examples of an abnormality like this have been recorded."
Researchers said they had examined the shark and found that its eye was made of functional optical tissue. It is unlikely that it would have survived.
Dr Magana and his colleagues will soon publish a scientific paper about the find.
Seth Romans, a spokesman for Pisces Fleet, told LiveScience that the fisherman who caught the shark was "amazed and fascinated" by the attention and was hanging on to its remains.
The cyclops shark, a viral hit, follows reports that scientists were 95 per cent sure they had found the Yeti in Siberia and the discovery of a kraken that like to arrange the bones of its victims into pictures of itself.
Read more:http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/cyclops-shark-real-where-are-the-lasers/story-fn5fsgyc-1226170276514#ixzz1bKGXjDzW
