Rare “Cyclops” Shark Found:
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.
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.
(by William White)New Shark Species Found in Food Market:
The new shark species, Squalus formosus, on display in a Taiwanese fish market.
(Fonte: National Geographic)
This bonnethead shark may be the oldest of his species. The shark, which lives in captivity in the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, is approximately 22 years old, 10 years older than most wild bonnetheads and five years older than the oldest bonnethead ever caught in the wild.
Freeze Frame
Photograph by Mick Tsikas
Hoping to inspire a freeze on shark hunting, Australia’s Melbourne Aquarium has put a 15-foot (4.5-meter) great hammerhead shark on ice.
(Fonte: National Geographic)
