The way it was caught is that it was still inside the mother when she was caught. The baby shark was about 22 inches long when it was taken out of it's mother.
Most people believe if the shark was born it wouldn't be able to fend for itself and I concur with this statement as there have been other animals born with cyclopia and have not survived.
No other sharks with this condition have ever been caught outside the womb.
The shark does kind of look like a cartoon character, my wife says it looks like Pleakley from "Lilo and Stitch" and I say it kind of looks like Mike Wazowski from "Monsters Inc."
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| Pleakley from Disney's "Lilo and Stitch" My wife's choice |
Mike Wazowski from Disney's "Monsters Inc."
My choice
Also in the shark world, off of Oregon, a surfer named Doug Niblack some how managed to surf on top of a Great White shark.
He said that he was about 50 yards off the shore when he felt a bump against his board.
After the bump he noticed that there was a dorsal fin in front of him.
Niblack had said that the shark's back felt rubbery. A fellow surfer, Jake Marks, cofirmed that there was a shark in the water and said that he saw the water churning around a standing Niblack.
Niblack estimates that he was on the shark's back for about three to four seconds.
One thing that I have a problem with this story is they don't say anything about his feet. I would assume that there should be some sort of damage to his feet because of the shark's skin.
A shark's skin is covered in what are pretty much tiny teeth called dentacles and if rubbed the wrong way can cause damage and tear the skin.
There is probably a way could have been on top of the shark without getting injured, but that just seems weird to me.
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Excellent post Mylo! Very entertaining, though I'm skeptical of both these stories. You seem to be as well, which is good. But excellent images/video and nice connections between the two.
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