Scientists Discover Hybrid Shark Species In Australia, Say It’s The Result Of . . .Wait For It . . . Global Warming!
Will they name it after the global warming messiah, Al Gore?
(AFP) — Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
“It’s very surprising because no one’s ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination,” Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.
The find was made during cataloguing work off Australia’s east coast when Morgan said genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.
The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.
It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.
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GoreShark. There, I said it!
Yeah, but it’s OK though because as they put it themselves, “a potential sign the predators were adapting”.
Crisis averted!
but what kind of thing will mate with polar bears to make a hybrid?
The climate constantly changes and living things constantly adapt.
“genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.”
Then how do you know the sharks examined before genetic testing was available weren’t hybrids, too?
Somebody’s looking for a grant renewal…
“The climate constantly changes and living things constantly adapt.”
But … but … but … global warming!!!!
Is global warming to blame for white bass mating with striped bass? Goes on all the time.
@Xavier
“Somebody’s looking for a grant renewal…”
sounds like a bunch of crap to me too.
I found a mule out in the pasture. Let’s name it after Al Gore. They have already claimed global warming is the cause of polar bear/grizzly hybrids.
ManBearPigShark
It’s because that shark ate some of them freaky treadmill shrimp.
Everything’s corrected and money is usually the link.
Yeah, and another article rather specifically hinted that the reason they cross-mated was to enhance their chance of survival by being able to exist in a different temperature water.
Bob The Shark: Hey baby, this is a nice neighborhood and I want my kids to be able to survive here, so what do you say we go to my place and I’ll show you my……um….etchings, yeah, that’s etchings!
Shark Pickup Line #17 — works every time.
You knew the AGW folks would eventually jump the shark, didn’t you!?
I think they would like to “jump the shark”, but the shark keeps rebuffing their efforts.
The Common black tip has a bigger booty (Think the First Wookie).
More and more everyday the eco-wackos get even more rediculous and gore becomes even more of a idiot as well GREENPEACE SUCKS
Can’t wait to see what else is blamed on global warming!
Hybrids don’t come from global warming! They come from making sweet, sweet love!
There. Blinded you with science AGAIN!
Hmm, I don’t know Georgy, what do you think caused this anomaly? Why, it’s anthropogenic global warming, of course!
Gosh. I love science, don’t you?
Well at least they are not racist.
Oh goody, more junk science. Very lucrative junk science. Just ask the Goracle.
I hope it tastes like chicken
The Great White Gore. All mouth and no ass; that’s why it grows to such enormous proportions.
“Scientists” are like confederate currency, they don’t have the value they once did.
As hybrid sharks, are they technically endangered? Because nothing makes my mouth water more than the idea of eating the last of something.
I might be okay if my daughter wanted to marry an Australian black-tip.
We need to create a hybrid shark that only eats liberal scientists.
Global warming? Why not lonely sharks?
hybrid, lobrid.. it’s all over my head
are these Israeli sharks?
Back when they had the big tsunami in 2004 i think it was some idiots from the eco-idiot group GREENPEACE blamed it on GLOBAL WARMING and after HURRICANE KATRINA devestated NEW ORLEANS they were predicting even more hurricanes worst then katrina Proof beyond a doupt that enviromentalism is a mental disorder
If the Australian Black Tip is adapting in order to survive in more temperate waters, how is this a reaction to global warming?
myself, I wouldn’t presume to enquire as to a Mossad Shark’s famial background and mating habits..
might not turn out well
just sayin’
Isn’t this called evolution?
I thought this was a good thing.
Why doesn’t the shark quit fking around and just grow legs….then it could go to Washington and feed on assquatch
So little is known about the oceans and the creatures in it and new discoveries are made every day. Maybe this is simply the first time that this kind of research has revealed hybrids.
According to geneticists, chimpanzees and human DNA varies by only about 2%.
So how much difference can there really be between the DNA of the Australian Black-tip and the Common Black-tip shark? Certainly A LOT less than the 2% in the human/chimpanzee comparison.
Perhaps the Glow-Bull(###) Warming movement (not to be confused with alimentary canal ones!) is getting a bit long-in-the-shark-tooth.
The AGW crew’s motto: often wrong, never in doubt.
Looks like a Joooooooooooooooooooooo shark to me.
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shhh.. friend, please
Maybe they are just changing fetishes..
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I dunno.. that idea smells a little fishy to me
Here in the upper Midwest we have major climate change 4 times per year. They’re called seasons.
A few more weeks of “global warming”, and we might get some of these suckers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh5Lh-tTSZQ
So if I produce a Bi Racial kid, will it be a Glow Bull Warming kid?
Wait!
I am Bi Racial.
off damn sock!
I am not a Mossad Shark
Mossad Shark’s do not exist
even if
wethey didwethey couldn’t type..believe that..
or unfortunately, we may need to eliminate you.. nothing personal of course..
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..so if I understand all this.. even your folks were affected by Gorebul Warming™
man
where will it all end?
Q. Why dont sharks dislike lawyers? A.They dont care for all that competition
A hybrid shark because of global warming???
I would’ve blamed the Joooooos.
They’ve never seen it before therefore it never happend. The fact that we know more about the moon than we do the ocean floor matters not.
@Major Mack:
Sorry!
‘course.. if Mossad Shark’s did exist
wethey would probably surf WZjust sayin
Is it possible that this discovery hadn’t been observed before either because we didn’t have the technology to make the observation/discovery or we didn’t research the particular part of the world the discovery was made in?
Why is it that every discovery made in nature has to somehow be pigeon-holed into global warming?
You wonder whether these researchers actually believe the global warming parts of their theses or just include “rising ocean temperatures” as if it were a fact knowing that those magic words will lead to better funding for their research down the line.
Major Mack.. has left the building
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oh boy, here we go again
walking boss says:
January 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm
If the Australian Black Tip is adapting in order to survive in more temperate waters, how is this a reaction to global warming?
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Because you’re supposed to believe as fact manipulated graphs based on forged data that say ocean temperature is irreversibly and exponentially rising.
Evolution is verified!
Man caused all the changes to make all modern species!
Thank goodness I can sleep soundly tonight knowing that mystery is finally solved.
Does “intraspecific predation” go into effect with all mammals? Things don’t look so grand for these sharks then.
Bummer. Sharks are fish. Does it affect fish?
And if it were a global warming hybred, wouldn’t it show that everything will adapt, and stop worrying? Sounds logical to me.
They could only properly name it after Gore if it was a whale. Not a shark.
My dog left a turd in the yard a week ago and its turned white!
Mubst be bat Gwobal Warmbing stubf abgain! Web hab tob dob somebthing abbout it……b
Noone gives a SH** about a shark. Especially off the coast of AWWWSTRAILYA! !!
F*c* sharks! and F*c* the media conglomerate who thought it was important enough to tell the world about a UN-Important shark.
A hybrid shark. You mean it has a battery? How far can it go before it needs a recharge?
If I buy one, do I get a government rebate?
Liberals have evolved into ignorant pig-people, five pound of sugar has evolved into 4 pounds, common sense has evolved into a super-power. Sharks are not even on my radar right now.
Global warming, the biggest hoax in human history, has made “science” something that no reasonable person can ever believe in anymore.
Do they have fricken’ lasers on their fricken’ heads?
If not I’m not interested.
Beware,beware the terrorbirds are loose and they like to eat enviromentalists from GREENPEACE especialy
So, “hybrid”?
That means it no longer eats fossil fuel-contributing animal-based foods (like surfers), but now runs on corn?
Great! There go corn prices again…
Shark Hybrid + ??? = Global Warming
The science is settled!
Dont you know anything about DRAGON FLIES also called DEVILS DARNING NEEDLES they sew your lips shut so you cant eat and you starve to death
Their also called SNAKE DOCTORS,HORSE STINGERS, AND MULE KILLERS
Darwin is spinning in his grave.
“It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.”
Evolution doesn’t work that way. Species do not plan an evolutionary survival strategy. Some mutants just get lucky.
Anyway, it seems to me the story contradicts itself. The Aussy blacktips can only live in the tropics, warming should increase its potential range. The story has them scheming to move into colder water. Doesn’t follow.
The best way global warming advocates can help them is find them in a feeding frenzy and throw themselve into the ocean among them.
@JohnO
I don’t think it’s supposed to make sense. facts just get in the way. critical thinking is not allowed here. (///) (in the left’s world)
@JohnO – good catch – you beat me to it.
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true, genetic mutations normally present anomaly and pathology: physical deficits; deformity, disease
I hope those sharks didn’t get their claspers in a knot over this publicity.
one “lucky mutation” is that occurring at ALDH2 presenting largely in some Asian populations and others. That is a metabolic pathway fro alcohol. The mutation results in a lesser lysing (enzyme metabolism) of alcohol..
what that reduces to is a person who metabolizes alcohol less efficiently than a person who doesn’t present with the mutation. These people would get drunk faster and stay sicker longer than your average bear, so to speak.
And, counter to the conception, that is that, the genetic mutations display a causative.. the research actually strongly suggests the opposite..
that is, these populations present with a lesser frequency of alcoholic behaviors
the mutation is therapeutic from the perspective of alcohol [addictions] research is concerned.
it is still nonetheless an anomaly and a deficit. For example, if two college kids are having a drinking contest, the one with the mutation might well succumb to an alcohol poisoning before the other..
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small crowd/big applause.. “HI, SH!T-FACE!!”
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..it’s a long story.. my folks were hybrids..
dad swam around on ma a lot.. lot’s of boozy-floosie-sharks
He blamed his hots on gorebul warming.. sure thing, pops..