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THIS bizarre one-eyed albino shark is a dead ringer for Mike from Monsters, Inc.
The baby "Cyclops", with a single eye in the middle of its face, was dismissed as a hoax after it was found by fishermen in Mexico.
But researchers who examined the preserved creature found it was the real deal.
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However, they say the pup would not have survived long in the wild. The shark, suffering from a deformity known as cyclopia, was cut from the womb of a dusky shark. It was caught by shocked fisherman Enrique Lucero León in the Gulf of California.
Biologist Felipe Galván-Magaña, of the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico, said: "This is extremely rare. As far as I know, less than 50 examples of an abnormality like this have been recorded."
Galván-Magaña and his colleagues have examined many other deformed embryos, including a two-headed shark.
The bodies of human cyclopia sufferers are exhibited in museums across the world.
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Post time 19-10-2011 12:48 PM
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