And I thought that was some kind of bizarre toy…!

Looks fake to me.

Does anyone really believe this?  This is clearly fake. Bull sharks have elliptical pupils, not round ones.

The protein involved in two eye development also is involved in brain development. So don’t ever expect a living cyclopic shark anytime soon.

I would think that would not be compatible with life either.  It does look fake.  Why is the guy holding the top of the head like that?  And why does the top of the eye “tissue” blend right into the skin?  Until someone from a recognized laboratory can verify this I say it is fake!  Esp. with the wrong eyeball!

“unborn pup that was removed from a large female bull shark”

O_o

Ummm…Am I the only one that thinks that sharks LAY EGGS? I recall seeing them tethered to some seaweed in an aquarium once, backlit so that you could see the silhouettes of the baby sharks through the leathery-like egg cases.   Plus, my biology was never as good as my Chem and Physics grades, but I also seem to recall that only mammals have live births.  If a shark is a fish, then tI’m pretty sure they’re doing it wrong. 

Some sharks, including the bull shark and the hammerhead, are viviparous, meaning that they give birth to live young.  Some mammals (the platypus and the echidna) lay eggs; some fish have live births.  Nature doesn’t always follow a strict code.

The non-elliptical eye I cannot explain, though.

In this world of Photoshop and online scams, it pays to have a hearty dose of skepticism at reports of
something strange — including an albino fetal shark with one eye smack
in the middle of its nose like a Cyclops.

But the Cyclops shark, sliced from the belly of a pregnant mama dusky shark caught by a commercial fishermen in the Gulf of California earlier this summer, is by all reports the
real thing. Shark researchers have examined the preserved creature and
found that its single eye is made of functional optical tissue, they
said last week. It’s unlikely, however, that the malformed creature
would have survived outside the womb.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/18/albino-cyclops-shark-is-real-experts-say/#ixzz1b8x57IY2

dumbass, it’d be one-third of each of those. 6 months and no one’s called you a jackass

Interesting, but the jury is still out unless bona fide experts have examined this “catch” and can publicly comment on it. Off South Africa is a birth-defected female great white called
“Quasimoto” which has been photo’ed, not captured, with a lower body deformity aft of her major dorsal fin (which mounts a humpback deformity) which means her body thereafter has not fully developed, rendering her slower than her sisters and brothers. Still she survives. Her age is not known, but it portends that she is not a newborn but may be a decade or more old.
She has appeared in at least one DVD…no human prefabrication. A few blood or skin samples might tell if this is a deformity by birth or, crazy as this may sound, an MD muscular dystrophy) case in a shark. I saw and knew of a neighbor’s female cat that was born with MD
and survived for years longer than vet experts gave her. She died at age 11.