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The One-Eyed Albino Shark Is Real

by | 19th, October 2011

THE one-eyed albino ‘cyclops’ shark her found by fisherman Enrique Lucero León off the coast of Mexico is not a hoax. The good news is that you can believe what a Mexican fishermen tells you. The less good news is that the seas are full of one-eyed sharks, crocodiles with tentacles and dragons.

Although Felipe Galván-Magaña, of the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico says a one-eyed shark is “extremely rare“:

Monsters are always rare until you finds lots and lots of them. What else is out there? Let’s take a look:

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ON Temuka beach, Rose Fraser has potted an alien. Says she: “I first saw it from a distance and I thought: ‘That’s a big white rock on the shore line … that wasn’t there four days ago’.” A new island? “I must admit, I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’. It looks like it’s got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don’t know.” So she did as anyone would do when faced with a magical discovery, a visitation from another planet. She lobbed a rock at it. She prodded it with a stick. It did not move. But it did smell. She then took a photo which found its way to Otago University’s whale experts. And they ruled that this blob was the stuffing from a sperm whale’s head. How it arrived on the beach? They say it crawled there…

 



Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink