Leela Shark Caught

[CalMeacham]

Actually, it’s only a fetus, but it looks so weird and complete that it’s hit the news:

'Cyclops' Shark Caught With 1 Giant Eye Looks Too Weird To Be Real

Cyclops’ Shark Caught With 1 Giant Eye Looks Too Weird To Be Real

Fishermen discovered a rare “Cyclops” albino shark with only one giant eye in a recent catch off Maluku province in Indonesia, the Sun reported earlier this month.

They were cutting open an adult shark that died in the net and found the already-dead one-eyed fetus. They reported the find to the local marine office and turned in the specimen.

“We found three babies inside its stomach, but one of them looked strange with only one eye. Its color was strange too, like milk,” one of the fishermen said,

Looks kinda like Leela from Futurama

Leela (Futurama)

It reminds me of pictures I’ve seen of rare one-eyed kittens, and is subtly disturbing in the same way.

Explanations for the Cyclops in Greek (and other) mythology explains them in terms of the single openings in volcanos, the nasal opening in skulls of mammoths and mastodons, and in firestick boards, but surely part of the inspiration for them must be these occasional one-eyed mutants.

[Broomstick]

The disorder in real life is on the holoprosencephaly spectrum. If you’re at the point of [WARNING! Disturbing picture in link!] cyclopia it’s usually incompatible with life.

[Darren_Garrison]

Not even the first time with a white (color, not species) shark fetus.

Cyclops Shark