A fisherman in Indonesia just pulled in a shocking haul when he caught a baby shark with a "human face." Abdullah Nuren, the fisherman, found the strange discovery near Rote Ndao in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia
New Discovery Went Viral
Nuren was collecting his nets when he noticed that he had accidentally caught an adult shark. He opened the shark's belly and spotted three "pups" inside. Two of the pups looked perfectly normal but one looked completely strange.
"I originally found a mother shark caught in the trawler net. The next day I split the belly of the mother shark and found three pups in the stomach. Two were like the mother and this one looked like it had a human face," Nuren explained.
The baby shark, which was near the size of a human hand, surfaced to have an open mouth, big round eyes, and a human-like expression of surprise.
Nuren took the baby shark's body home to show his family who assisted him in preserving it. As the news of his discovery went viral, the number of people gathering outside his home also increased, with the hope to catch a glance at the strange discovery. Nuren said his home has been crowded with people who want to see the shark.
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The Baby Shark is a Requiem Shark
The baby shark is affirmed to be a "requiem" shark as these sharks, which are Carcharhinidae family members, can be very small or huge (less than 40 inches or more than 24 feet respectively)
So, what could have happened to make this baby shark develop such bizarre features?
Scientists have a couple of theories in which one, the bulging eyes of the baby shark may not actually be the eyes after all but part of the nose. The human-like shark is not the first strange sea animal to be found near Indonesia. Fishermen made a similarly surprising discovery in October 2020.
The story begins the same way. Fishermen in Indonesia caught a mother shark in their nets. When they cut the shark open, they found two normal pups and a strange one, but in this case, the baby shark was albino with just one eye.
Three Babies Found in the Stomach
One of the fishermen who made the discovery said they found three babies inside its stomach, but one of them looked odd with only one eye. The baby shark's color was odd too, like milk. That discovery brought comparisons to a similar discovery in 2011 in Mexico. Then, fishermen discovered another albino but here, it's a one-eyed shark in its mother's womb.
What led to this kind of mutation in sharks? Scientists are not sure about it as the root cause is hard to research in a controlled setting. Nevertheless, defects in sharks could arise from a number of factors, which include infections, inbreeding, and pollutions because of overfishing.
Though there are still a lot unrevealed about the baby shark found by Nuren.
So, how will Nuren handle his discovery?
According to him, many people have offered to buy the strange little shark but he has made up his mind to keep it for now because he thinks it will bring him good luck.
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