This Baby Albino ‘Cyclops’ Shark Looks So Comically Surreal I Thought It Was A Kid’s Toy And Not A Real Shark

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This week has some major cosmic energy pumping through its veins. We have Halloween on Saturday which falls on the same night as a Blue Moon (the 2nd full moon of the month) and the clocks ‘fall back’ at 2am on Sunday morning which would’ve been awesome any other year but this year is different and based on this shark below it feels like the Gates of Hell have started leaking monsters a few days early which would be par for the course in 2020.

Back on October 10th, this beast from the underworld was reportedly found in the ‘waters off Maluku Province in Indonesia’ according to FTW and Yahoo! Australia. At first glance, I was 100% certain this was either a Halloween prank or some weird misplaced ad of a photoshopped creature but it appears as if this comical-looking creature is real and you bros really need to see it.

This baby shark was actually found inside of an adult shark. It’s reported the adult shark was caught in a fishing net as ‘bycatch’ and they found this one-eyed albino shark in the belly of that beast. The report says they found three babies in the stomach and this one looked particularly strange which is the understatement of the century.

This shark has one eye and suffers from albinism. A one-eyed albino shark is something most people don’t even see once in a lifetime.

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Seriously, how is that thing real? It looks like something I’d doodle in a notebook as a kid and my classroom teacher would tell me I needed to practice or I’d never make it as an artist. This albino shark looks so comically fake I’m still having trouble believing it’s real and not some elaborate prank.

The condition of ‘Cyclopia’ is a birth deformity which apparently causes the embryo to only form one eye instead of two and it’s incredibly rare. On top of that, albinism is also exceedingly rare and something that we almost never see in the wild because albino species stick out like a sore thumb and are so easily targeted by predators they get picked off quicker than species with natural camouflage. A similar shark to this one below was caught in Mexico years ago but it looks like all the images from my old article have since disappeared but here’s a YouTube video on that shark. Interestingly, that shark was also caught towards the end of October in that year:

It must be The Season of the Albino Shark because this one was captured in the UK just three weeks ago. Is it safe to go swimming right now? Only you can be the judge of that. I might wait until after Halloween passes and the Gates of Hell close up but I also live in Florida and the water’s still warm enough to swim until January.