Fisherman hooks two headed shark

The two headed shark caught by a fisherman in the United States. Picture: Live Science.

AS if catching a shark wasn't exciting enough, this fisherman found one of the shark's live foetuses had two heads.

The fisherman handed the specimen, caught off the Florida Keys over to scientists who published a report on the creature in the Journal of Fish Biology this week. 

MRI scans of the animal showed it really was two headed. It had two distinct brains as well as two hearts and two stomachs. The rest of the body was joined by one single tail.

The deformation is called "axial bifurcation". It occurs when the embryo begins to split into two separate animals or twins, but doing so incompletely.

It turns out the shark is one of only six examples of a two-headed shark ever recorded, and the first time this has been seen in a bull shark.

Michael Wagner, the study co-author and researcher at Michigan State University told Discovery.com the animal wouldn't have lived for long in the wild.

"It had very developed heads, but a very stunted body," Prof Wagner said." When you're a predator that needs to move fast to catch other fast-moving fish … that'd be nearly impossible with this mutation." 

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Fisherman hooks Great White Shark

A fisherman got more than he bargained for when he went out fishing in the US

FAB Marchese has the best fishing story ever. Last Friday he hooked a Great White Shark. And he has the video to prove it.

Mr  Marchese  fought the 1360 kilogram shark for nearly three and a half hours holding the rod against his abdomen.

"Just the vision of seeing that head," Mr Marchese said. "Like, it was massive! That's what I'm going to remember the most."

Mr Marchese said he though he just had to hang on to the shark no matter what.

"Just hold on, yeah hold on and fight," said Marchese. "I wanted to see it right up close."

Joe Maisano with Go Fast Fishing Charters in Treasure Island was stunned when he saw what was on the end of Mr Marchese’s line.

"About four hours into the fishing trip and then big mama showed-up and wanted to play."

"Only a couple species of sharks get that big," Mr Maisano said. "Great hammerheads, tiger sharks, and the great whites are the only three that will get up there that big."

The only problem with hooking such a big catch is that it’s going to be hard to beat it.

"Yeah, this is like a dream come true basically," Mr Marchese said. "You never think something like this is going to happen. It's just like, how am I going to top this now?"

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Fisherman hooks Great White Shark

A fisherman got more than he bargained for when he went out fishing in the US

FAB Marchese has the best fishing story ever. Last Friday he hooked a Great White Shark. And he has the video to prove it.

Mr  Marchese  fought the 1360 kilogram shark for nearly three and a half hours holding the rod against his abdomen.

"Just the vision of seeing that head," Mr Marchese said. "Like, it was massive! That's what I'm going to remember the most."

Mr Marchese said he though he just had to hang on to the shark no matter what.

"Just hold on, yeah hold on and fight," said Marchese. "I wanted to see it right up close."

Joe Maisano with Go Fast Fishing Charters in Treasure Island was stunned when he saw what was on the end of Mr Marchese’s line.

"About four hours into the fishing trip and then big mama showed-up and wanted to play."

"Only a couple species of sharks get that big," Mr Maisano said. "Great hammerheads, tiger sharks, and the great whites are the only three that will get up there that big."

The only problem with hooking such a big catch is that it’s going to be hard to beat it.

"Yeah, this is like a dream come true basically," Mr Marchese said. "You never think something like this is going to happen. It's just like, how am I going to top this now?"

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