One of my friends told me recently that there have been sightings of a rare shark that is found very deep in the ocean that their fins have sort of elongated into tiny arms. I'm not sure if what they are saying is true or not but I figured that I would put something up here and that ther is someone on here who will tell me the truth... thanks alot.

I have not heard of it, but the same genes that make arms and legs in humans are the same ones that make fins on sharks.

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060...fins_limbs.html

Interesting and something I have not heard of... if this is true I would only assume that the sharks front fins have adapted to be used as small arms to help them move along the ocean floor easier..

Mattshark is the man who would know all about this..

We shared an ancestor with sharks.


Awesome.

If there is one, it's more likely a mutant, not an actual species. It can be caused by a mutation of the homöobox genes, which have been mentioned before. Those things usually don't survive, so it's unlikely we're going to see one again.

Great, now a shark can poke you to find the tenderest spot before it bites you....kinda like pickin-out a tomato.

Umm... there are walking sharks (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060918141606.htm) that walk across the bottom on their fins, but they don't really have arms.

you said homöobox!

Shark with arms!? What in the... does it look like this?

Hahaha, homöobox.............

If it is true then yes, it probably just a mutation.

That's just great. Now we can be just like corn dogs to them.

I doubt the shark actually had arms, but a mutation on homeobox sequences could cause the fins to rememble a limb-like appendage.

Here
Appearently, it's homeobox in english. As if that's any better.


Edit: ^^ What he said

HAHA nice street sharks pics yea I kinda figured it was bogus they do like to mess with me. But I figured I'd bring it here and I'd get the true answer. Thanks

Last time I heard about a very rare shark spotted and captured was the frilled shark...now there's a new one with arms on it? What age is this? Is this the beginning of the Beast Wars already? Just because Transformers are going to be premiered real soon?

oh my god....my mom used to scare me by telling me there`s a shark on the floor....>.> now....i think she`s finally saying the truth...lol AAAGHHH!!!

Oh gods... there's a blast from my ill spent childhood.

*Going to go hide now. Have more of a reason NOT to go to the beach.*

Holy god! My name is Thaddeus, too! Only, everyone at school calls me Tad for a skater name . Not many of us Thaddeus' are out there.

I remember reading about it in the news awhile back but I cannot remember the name of the shark. But I think it is called a "Frilled Shark".


Here is the link for the video: http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=4017

Another interesting shark that was found but of course thrown back is this one.



Shark with webbed feet

A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, made this unusual find when she was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty recently.

Mary Looi, 48, said she only realised the shark was different when she wanted to cook tomyam fish for lunch for her family.

“It was only when I was about to cut the shark the day after I received it that I found two webbed feet sticking out from the lower part of the body.

“The shark is one-metre long,” she said.

Looi said she dared not cook the fish after consulting her husband Gooi Man Kaw, 57, who told her that according to Chinese belief, eating fish with unusual features could bring disaster or ill luck.

“Immediately, I returned the fish to the fisherman that night at about 10pm.

“He threw it back into the sea,” said Looi.

Looi, who has been working at LKIM for 10 years, said this was the first time she had stumbled upon such an unusual find.

When contacted, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Muka Head marine research station head Prof Dr Zulfigar Yasin said this is the first time he had heard of fish with legs found in the Malaysian waters.

“There is a possibility that the fish could have swum from other waters into Malaysian waters.

“As far as I am concerned, fish species with legs or bony fins can only be discovered in the waters of North Sulawesi in Indonesia or South Africa,” he said.




The epaulette shark that has recently been discovered walks on its fins.




Here is a picture of a goblin shark

Imagine if we inherited their jaws an teeth! I would have one wicked smile!

Monsters, all of them. All terrifying monsters of the deep. We should poison the oceans to eliminate the minimal to nonexistent threat.

After Loch Ness, you mean.......right?

"These sharks punch back"????

Who's going around punching sharks? Maybe if they didn't, the sharks wouldn't grow arms....

Never heard that's a way to deal with angry sharks? Punch 'em!
...then let your stump bleed all over them.

--Jaylemurph

PS - Congrats on 1,000 posts

man that frilled shark is one messed up fish never seen that before!

The most fun you can have under the sea: Shark Boxing.

You know what? This thread has become a joke...and that lady with the "webbed feet shark"...oowee, she's actually holding the shark's ****

no more...pics... ugly shark... no more.... pls...

I wanted to say exactly the same thing but you were faster... I'd love to see her face after someone told him the truth

Sharks have two of them?!
...one for common, one for best I suppose...

--Jaylemurph

Yep, they have two. link

^sing it like "One in dem front and two on de back", then o the Lil Jon's "Ra!"

Doesn't that fool work out with Larry on Spongebob Squarepants?

my mistake.

I posted a link that was already posted.

they have found a dead dolphin with legs, maybe if they mated they would get some kind of weird person