One-Eyed Shark Found in Mexico,Germ-Cyclops 56-cm length of a single functioning eye in front of the head. Earlier this year, Enrique Lucero Leon fisherman legally caught a pregnant dark shark near the island of Cerralvo, in the Gulf of California. When Leon cut his prey, he found a strange creature with its nine completely normal brothers and sisters. "This is something unbelievable," says biologist Felipe Galván-Magana, of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico. After Galván-Magana and his colleague Marcel Bejarano Alvarez heard the discovery, which appeared on the photo page in the network Facebook, the team received permission to take Leon shark for research. Scientists have confirmed that Akulenok suffered cyclopia - a disease occurring in other species.











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