Current Events 11/7/11

Cyclops Shark Joins Ranks of Cryptic Creatures 

By Stephanie Pappas

On Scientific American 

In this very unique article I found out a lot of interesting and wild facts. This article is about how a fisherman on the coast of California found a shark in it's mother's womb. But this was no ordinary baby. Instead of having two eyes it had one big eye in the middle of it's head.This find was proven authentic because shark researchers examined the shark and was able to prove its authenticity. Other scientific finds like this have been found like a girl that had no nose and one eye in the middle and also a cat that had a similar condition. In the article the author also talked about other acclaimed finds like a kraken's lair and yeti hair and tracks. Over time a lot of finds have been proven a hoax, but some finds that have been proven may be behind the old myths and tales.

I chose this article because the title popped out and made me very interested, you usually do not here about cycloptic sharks. Scientific American is atrusted website. I also know this article is valid because the same story was also on National Geographic. I think this article proves that many myths and legends about creatures could be actually based on a real abnormal creature. This proves that even though these myths and legends are exaggerated, they might actually have a scientific side to them. A good example of this is the rare giant squid. These very rare squids might of attacked a ship and caused people to tell the story of a giant man-eating squid. I learned quite a lot from this article. I found this article very interesting and different. I thought it was kind of creepy that animals could actually have one eye and other deformed body parts. I learned that all of these myth and legends from all over different places and time, could possibly be true.