It's not unusual to go out into the sea and catch a variety of marine life, but it's amazing that an Indian fisherman caught a two-headed juvenile shark.
The British "Mirror" reported on the 14th that Indian fisherman Nitin Patil caught this two-headed juvenile shark about 20 centimeters long in the waters near the western Indian state of Maharashtra on the 9th. He didn't realize the shark was strange, took a few photos and put it back in the sea. Another fisherman on the fishing boat, Umesh Palekar, said: "We have never seen anything like this before. "The two-headed juvenile shark in the photo is a broad-tailed oblique-toothed shark.
Swapnier Tandel, an Indian marine biologist, said that due to the fact that the two-headed shark has been rarely found before, there is no way to explain the cause of this abnormal physiological feature. Genetic defects, metabolic abnormalities, viruses, contamination or overfishing are all possible causes.
KV Akilesh, a marine biologist at the Agricultural Research Council of India, said that all similar two-headed sharks found so far are either egg fetuses or "newborns", and the probability of double-headed sharks surviving to adulthood is not high.
Records from India's Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute show that a double-headed pointed-snouted sawtooth shark was spotted in Gujarat in 1964 and a double-headed, broad-tailed oblique-toothed shark was spotted in Karnataka in 1991. (Wang Yijun) [Xinhua News Agency Micro Feature]
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