Scientists have just discovered an extremely rare shark off the coast of Mexico, it has only one eye and is albino.
The strange shark has one eye on its head. Photo: Nationalgeographic.
A fisherman named Enrique Lucero León caught a pregnant shark near the island of Cerralvo in the Gulf of California. When cutting open the shark’s stomach, Mr. León discovered that the shark fetus had a very strange shape. The fetus is 56 cm long and has only one eye in the front of its head.
After learning information about the strange shark fetus via Facebook, the research team including Dr. Galván Magaña and Marcela Bejarano Álvarez, from the Marine Science Center in La Paz (Mexico), asked Mr. León for permission to borrow shark to study.
According to National Geographic, scientists took X-rays of the strange fetus and reviewed previous research on other one-eyed animals to confirm the existence of one-eyed sharks.
Previously, this animal has been mentioned in scientific literature, but no one-eyed shark has been discovered in the wild.
Dr. Galván Magaña said the one-eyed shark also suffered from other deformities, such as albinism, no nostrils, a hump in the nose and a deformed spine.
Scientists speculate that these deformities in sharks are not related to environmental pollution because the area where the shark was caught is very clean.
