Two-Headed Shark Caught!

The body of a rare two-headed baby shark was brought to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa after being caught in the Atlantic Ocean.

The oddity is being kept in a jar of alcohol at the aquarium.

Head of education at the aquarium, Russell Stevens, said the little shark was brought in early last month by a fisherman who said it was caught from their Japanese tuna boat.

Stevens said he had never seen anything like it before.

“It just goes to remind one that there are a lot of things we don’t know about in our seas,” Stevens said.

“Because it’s a rare situation, we haven’t been able to establish the chances of its survival if it had been alive.” Stevens said they had been unable to definitely identify the shark’s species, but thought it could have been a Blue Shark. He added it was one of the 700 ocean species that get killed every year by longline boats.

A photograph of the shark, taken by the fisherman shortly after it was caught, showed that its umbilical cord was still intact.

Aquarium staff said this led them to believe the fishermen might have taken it out of the mother shark after killing it.

Two heads means two set of teeth, right?

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