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World-first hybrid shark found off Australia
http://news.yahoo.com/world-first-hybrid-shark-found-off-australia-070347608.htmlScientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
"It's very surprising because no one's ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination," Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.
"This is evolution in action."
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
"It's very surprising because no one's ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination," Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.
"This is evolution in action."
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World-first hybrid shark found off Australia (Original Post)
Roland99
Jan 2012
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Has Monsanto patented it yet?
Will Monsanto charge royalties to anyone bitten by the new shark?
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)2. Can't have really happened given that there's no such thing...
As Evolution or Climate Change...right?
beac
(9,992 posts)3. Sharks that run on gas OR electricity...
the Fearus???
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)4. do they have frickin laser beams attached to their heads?
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)6. All we have are ill-tempered sea bass.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)7. You know, I think this happens alot more than we know.
We just don't notice it.
harun
(11,348 posts)9. Agree, it's a big ocean.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)8. Shit this is what happens when you dump old Prius batteries in the ocean!
Charlemagne
(576 posts)10. It gets 50 nautical miles to the gallon.