World-first hybrid shark found off Australia

[Roland99]

http://news.yahoo.com/world-first-hybrid-shark-found-off-australia-070347608.html

Scientists 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."

[gratuitous]

1. Has Monsanto patented it yet?

Will Monsanto charge royalties to anyone bitten by the new shark?

[sakabatou]

5. ...

[Moonwalk]

2. Can't have really happened given that there's no such thing...

As Evolution or Climate Change...right?

[beac]

3. Sharks that run on gas OR electricity...

the Fearus???

[leftyohiolib]

4. do they have frickin laser beams attached to their heads?

[sakabatou]

6. All we have are ill-tempered sea bass.

[Ecumenist]

7. You know, I think this happens alot more than we know.

We just don't notice it.

[harun]

9. Agree, it's a big ocean.

[Fearless]

8. Shit this is what happens when you dump old Prius batteries in the ocean!

[Charlemagne]

10. It gets 50 nautical miles to the gallon.

[Roland99]

11. ha!