Mutant Mondays: Cyclops Shark

Hey randoms!

I told you I wouldn't forget... even though it's been a few weeks but hey, at least I've got something for you.

This week I present to you...

The Cyclops Shark

Earlier in 2011, Enrique Lucero Leon, a Mexican fisherman, legally caught a pregnant dusky shark near Cerralvo Island and received an unreal surprise. The female shark had a one-eyed albino embryo tucked in between it's nine normal siblings. This 56 centimeter long (22 inches) fetus has one large and completely functioning eye, accompanied with pale white skin, making it a viral hit.

The fisherman, Enrique Lucero Leon and his researcher, Bejarano-Álvarez.

The one-eyed fish is an example of the medical condition called cyclopia, which occurs in several animal species as well as humans. Those who suffer from the condition usually have a perfectly functioning eye, but since the sense of sight is weaker, most wild animals don't survive long. Bejarano-Álvarez, a scientific researcher, and her team took the fetus with permission from Enrique and X-rayed it, revealing that the fetus is indeed a real cyclops shark.

Smile for the camera! ... or smirk whatever.

Have a lovely week and see you next Monday foorrrrr.......

Mutant Mondays: Welcome to the worst day of the week...

Mondays.

The day that starts the week. The day that Sunday decided to throw up. The day that means work time. The day that I'm always the sleepiest. The day that moves the slowest.

Mondays...

don't have to be so bad anymore! What's better than starting the week off by looking at a picture of an animal and laughing your normal looking head off or going, HUH??? This is Mutant Mondays. A group of blog posts where I'll be writing about the weirdest and whackiest creatures on our dear planet Earth. Everything on Earth is perfect right?

Wrong.

Sometimes nature might wake up one day and say "Hmm, i feel like stuffing up one of my designs today. Yeah, that one bug looks too normal. Lets give it an ugly, or pretty to some people, shade of pink. That would be funny."


So on this wet and cold Monday arvo I present to you.....
Drum roll please!

The Pink Katydid:

This mutated form of cricket was first discovered 1887 and is so rare, there's a better chance of you spotting a unicorn in the woods than this little critter. Katydids are a type of cricket and are usually green or grey, but this rare pink cricket is a 1 in 500 mutation, so it's really rare. This bright shade is the result of a condition called erythrism, a condition that also turns other animals albino (white).  Not many people have been sucessful in breeding pink Katydids in captivity, until 2009, where an insectarium in New Orleans captured a male and female pink Katydid. These produced a new litter of pink baby Katydids.

The world may not be perfect, so you're better off accepting it. I guess the whole point of Mutant Mondays is to let others know that even though you may not be perfect, you're brilliant for being you. Smile my pretties, and embrace this tired day as you strut through thinking 'that's right, I'm not perfect, but i got a pink cricket on my side. Who's on yours, huh?'

Have a lovely week, and see you next Monday for another update on...

Keep that randomness going! <3