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Fisherman Enrique Lucero León saw it, but he still does not accept it. Off the coast of Cerralvo Island near Mexico, he found one of the only reported instances of a Cyclops shark, an embryo still located in the womb of its mom, a dusky shark.
Nightmares come from single eye
It is very scary when a person realizes the 22 inch Cyclops shark fetus has just one eye on the front of its head. Animals al-ways have the potential for birth defect. This is the same as it is with humans.
This was something on sight Leon could not ignore. National Geographic spoke to Felipe Galvan-Magana from the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico, who said that Facebook was where he learned about Le-on’s discovery. He immediately con-tacted the fisherman to ask authorization to borrow the one-eyed shark for re-search.
This was certainly a Cyclops shark that Leon had captured, as shown by x-rays and other research, making it a very uncommon lawsuit. Jim Gelsleichter works for the University of North Florida as a shark biologist. He said that Cyclops sharks are not expected to last long considering only embryos have ever been found.
Greek myths explaining the natural world
The presence of animals with cyclopia harkens back to a time when ancient Greeks and Ro-mans attempted to use fossil evidence of currently extinct species to support portrayals of the Cyclops in ancient myth, writes folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor in her book “The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.” Such beliefs were spread by the ancient Greek epic poet Homer, who wrote in “The Odyssey” of a giant, man-eating humanoid Cyclops that plagued Odysseus and his crew. Other beliefs tell of the blacksmith-to-the-gods Cyclops brothers, who were born of the earth goddess Gaia and sky god Uranus.
"The idea that mythology explains the natural world is an old idea," said archaeol-ogist Dr. Thomas Strasser of California State University, Sacramento. "With no concept of evo-lution, it makes sense that they would reconstruct them in their minds as giants, monsters, sphinxes, etc."
What the shark looks like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGxyhgLKTk
Information from
“The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times”:
National Geographic
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Nightmares come from single eye
It is very scary when a person realizes the 22 inch Cyclops shark fetus has just one eye on the front of its head. Animals al-ways have the potential for birth defect. This is the same as it is with humans.
This was something on sight Leon could not ignore. National Geographic spoke to Felipe Galvan-Magana from the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico, who said that Facebook was where he learned about Le-on’s discovery. He immediately con-tacted the fisherman to ask authorization to borrow the one-eyed shark for re-search.
This was certainly a Cyclops shark that Leon had captured, as shown by x-rays and other research, making it a very uncommon lawsuit. Jim Gelsleichter works for the University of North Florida as a shark biologist. He said that Cyclops sharks are not expected to last long considering only embryos have ever been found.
Greek myths explaining the natural world
The presence of animals with cyclopia harkens back to a time when ancient Greeks and Ro-mans attempted to use fossil evidence of currently extinct species to support portrayals of the Cyclops in ancient myth, writes folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor in her book “The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.” Such beliefs were spread by the ancient Greek epic poet Homer, who wrote in “The Odyssey” of a giant, man-eating humanoid Cyclops that plagued Odysseus and his crew. Other beliefs tell of the blacksmith-to-the-gods Cyclops brothers, who were born of the earth goddess Gaia and sky god Uranus.
"The idea that mythology explains the natural world is an old idea," said archaeol-ogist Dr. Thomas Strasser of California State University, Sacramento. "With no concept of evo-lution, it makes sense that they would reconstruct them in their minds as giants, monsters, sphinxes, etc."
What the shark looks like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGxyhgLKTk
Information from
“The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times”:
National Geographic
Pete Thomas Outdoors
Reef Builders
Slightly Warped