first hybrid shark discovered

[scrabface]

This is so big I think it deserves its own thread

http://www.springerlink.com/content/147031537857tx27/

"Detection of interspecies hybridisation in Chondrichthyes: hybrids and hybrid offspring between Australian (Carcharhinus tilstoni) and common (C. limbatus) blacktip shark found in an Australian fishery"

This could be a sign for a class reacting to the global warming. pretty amazing, huh? evolution in action.

[OANST]

No pictures = I don't care.

[Connell]

No pictures = I don't care.

Glad someone informed me there were no snaps. Just saved me 12 seconds of my time I can now fap in.

[OANST]

I perform a valuable service here.

[Connell]

I perform a valuable service here.

Sorry, I already had the fap.

Oh wait, I see what you meant.

[Strike Witch]

I just watched Deep Blue Sea last night.

Coincidence? I think not.

[OANST]

Are there Japanese people in that?

[Bullet Magnet]

Well I found it very interesting.

[OANST]

You ruin everything.

[Bullet Magnet]

I ruin attempts at ruination. This is known as rescue.

[OANST]

It's known as wet blanket syndrome.

[Bullet Magnet]

Tomato, potato.

[Phylum]

This could be a sign for a class reacting to the global warming. pretty amazing, huh? evolution in action.

What if it was just really desperate for a root?

[Mr. Bungle]

That's pretty cool. I hope they don't turn into mutant super-sharks that plot to kill us all.

[enchilado]

Man, those fucking chondrichthyans. That's basically zoophilia right there.

Let's just hope great whites don't cross with whale sharks.

[Havoc]

No pictures = I don't care.

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[Crashpunk]

I don't know what any of them sharks are, Nor do I partically care. Unless this 'new' Shark is the size of a whale or something.

[Bullet Magnet]

Imagine a shark that is part this



and part this

[Sekto Springs]

So basically it would look like a shark, is what you're saying.

[Connell]

So basically it would look like a shark, is what you're saying.

This.

[Nate]

The point is that this is like a Tiglon or a Liger, only aquatic. And naturally occuring, rather than man-forced.

Or a mule.


Do we know yet whether they're sterile?

[MeechMunchie]

Yes, it would look like a shark... but a shark that looks like a shark.

EDIT: Double ninja'd

[STM]

Get rid of the bastards by dropping a few Japanese into their habitat. Bring things back to their natural balance.

[scrabface]

The point is that this is like a Tiglon or a Liger, only aquatic. And naturally occuring, rather than man-forced.

Or a mule.


Do we know yet whether they're sterile?

no they can reproduce themselves.

[Crashpunk]

Bullet Magnet's sig is very appropriate.

[Sekto Springs]

When the cross-breeding of sharks results in such evolutionary traits as head-mounted laser guns and razor blade fins, let me know.

[Crashpunk]

[Sekto Springs]

Exactly.

[Bullet Magnet]

Ligers grow much bigger than both lions and tigers. This may be because of imprinted genes that are only expressed when inherited from a certain parent, the upshot of which is that they either get a boost in genetically-ordained growth or miss out on a growth inhibitor. The same thing sometimes occurs in dog cross-breeds.

It is not inconceivable that a viable shark hybrid is possible with a similar effect, that could lead to giant sharks. If that doesn't interest you guys I don't know what will.

[Sekto Springs]

But we already have giant sharks. Albeit extremely docile ones.
They still don't have laser guns though.