# Leela Shark Caught
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leela-shark-caught/924019
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leela-shark-caught/924019 "2020-10-27T11:47:26Z")
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leela-shark-caught/924019/1 "2020-10-27T11:47:26Z")
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](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyclops-shark-one-eye_n_5f97e361c5b6b74d85f43eb7)**
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> Fishermen found the unborn albino shark in a recent catch and turned it over to Indonesian authorities.
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> **Cyclops’ Shark Caught With 1 Giant Eye Looks Too Weird To Be Real**
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> Fishermen discovered a rare “Cyclops” albino shark with only one giant eye in a recent catch off Maluku province in Indonesia, [the Sun reported](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12934641/mutant-one-eyed-cyclops-baby-shark-indonesia/) earlier this month.
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> 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.
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> “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)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_(Futurama))**
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> Turanga Leela is a fictional character from the animated television series Futurama. Leela is spaceship captain, pilot, and head of all aviation services on board the Planet Express Ship. Throughout the series, she has an on-again, off-again relationship with Philip J. Fry, the central character in the series. The character, voiced by Katey Sagal, is named after the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen. She is one of the few characters in the cast to routinely display competence and the...
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.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leela-shark-caught/924019/2 "2020-10-27T16:00:18Z")
The disorder in real life is on the [holoprosencephaly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoprosencephaly) spectrum. If you’re at the point of **[WARNING! Disturbing picture in link!]** [cyclopia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia) it’s usually incompatible with life.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leela-shark-caught/924019/3 "2020-10-27T17:01:01Z")
Not even the first time with a white (color, not species) shark fetus.
> **[Cyclops Shark](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cyclops-shark/)**
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> Photographs show a one-eyed shark fetus?