Rare "Cyclops" Shark Found

[Natural Citizen]

Scwewy...

Pictures: Rare "Cyclops" Shark Found

A one-eyed fetus whose mother was caught by a fisher is one of only a few sharks with a documented case of cyclopia, new research says.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[night_son]

Awesome find.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Apparently it's nothing more than a birth defect.

The term cyclopia describes a congenital defect in animals characterized by the fusion of the orbits into a single cavity containing one eye. In mid-2011, fisherman Enrique Lucero León was trolling the waters near Cerralvo Island in the Gulf of California and hooked a pregnant dusky shark. Upon cutting open his catch, he discovered ten shark fetuses, one of which was a 22-inch-long cyclopic shark fetus with a single functioning eye in the front of its head.

According to National Geographic:

 

[the other mike]

Probably a Fukushima mutation.

 

[Rambunctious]

Don't show that to Jeffrey Toobin.....

 

[the other mike]