Posted on 10/18/2011 10:02:27 AM PDT by presidio9
In this world of Photoshop and online scams, it pays to have a hearty dose of skepticism at reports of something strange — including an albino fetal shark with one eye smack in the middle of its nose like a Cyclops.
But the Cyclops shark, sliced from the belly of a pregnant mama dusky shark caught by a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of California earlier this summer, is by all reports the real thing. Shark researchers have examined the preserved creature and found that its single eye is made of functional optical tissue, they said last week. It's unlikely, however, that the malformed creature would have survived outside the womb.
"This is extremely rare," shark expert Felipe Galvan Magana of Mexico's Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias del Mar told the Pisces Fleet Sportfishing blog in July. "As far as I know, less than 50 examples of an abnormality like this have been recorded." [See photos of the one-eyed "Cyclops" shark]
Pisces Fleet, a sportfishing company, rocketed the Cyclops shark to viral status online this summer with their photos of the creepy-cute creature. But this isn't the first time that reports of a mythical-seeming creature have spurred media sensations — last week alone, Russian officials announced "proof" of a Yeti, and paleontologists spun a theory about an ancient Kraken-like squid. Few reports of mythical beasts, however,
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... and it made those tracks on Mars...
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I only have eye for you.......
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I got a gal with just one eye
No depth of field but sweet as pie
And I just don’t careo
If her vision isnt stereo
To me she’ll always be the tops
My sweet little cyclops
She’s the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She’s the one-eye, one I love
Now you might wonder what she’s thinkin’
‘Cause it looks like she is winkin’
In arguments I yell and cry
But she just can’t see the other side
It’s worse than it looks, says her mother
‘Cause she’s blind in one eye, blonde in the other
She’s the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She’s the one-eye, one I love
Now how it happened, she just won’t spill
Was it scissor sprint or William Tell?
Well the eye got put out and was never found
Gone to take a look around
My Columbo cutie, Popeye punkin’
Sammy Junior, Sandy Duncan
She’s the one-eye, one-eye, one-eye, one-eye
She’s the one-eye, one I love (Marcus Tee)
I’d feel more certain if the fellow holding the shark didn’t have his fingers over the spot where a normal sharks eyes would be.
Soon to be a Pixar/Disney movie...Finding Cyclo.
Note how the fingers on the pic cover the eyes. Did that eye come from a Build A Bear? Looks like it.
malformation occurs in all species, even humans. but most die before birth or soon after birth...no great mystery..I have seen pictures of human babies born without a brain, only the brain stem. Usually die before birth. Natures way of getting rid of freaks of nature that cannot survive.
So I put my hand like this to cover his eyes, then put the fake eye up front like this?
Those black doll eyes. Ooops wrong kind of eye?
Survivors generally go into politics.
Bet it is more real then 0’s job bill!!
LOL astute observation..
“It was a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater.”
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