Bizarre new shark species spotted …
| April 1, 2012 | Posted by News under News, speciation |
Here. And here only. On this date.
“The photophore contains a unique lens structure that focuses the light it produces. So strongly focused is the light, in fact, that it can be used in prey capture by the shark”
Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista
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Shark with headlights!
I was hoping for a sighting of Zissou’s elusive Jaguar Shark. Poor Esteban.
That’s not a shark. It’s a submarine from an old Johnny Quest cartoon.
It looks like a spoof – with bells on.
April 1st, perchance…? Why didn’t I think of it?
Missing link between sharks and submarines found!
Did they find genes from maglights in the genome?
Yes, and apparently the discovery “sheds new light on evolution.”
Sharks don’t shed, they molt.
It must be an adaptation.
I remember the Johnny Quest episode now. Race Bannon piloted the “Subshark” to the mystery island where Johnny and Hadji sneaked in with their dog Bandit to find needed information to defeat the Frog Men.
Looking, as it does, like a cross between an armadillo, the Sydney Opera House and a cartoon depiction of marlin, one can only marvel at the riotous panoply of evolution’s inventive adaptations.
There can be little doubt that this shark’s assumption of its current, moleskin-like integument was Nature’s response to mans’s evergrowing, if random, appetite for sharkskin fabric for men’s suits.