TWO-HEADED SHARKS Are Being Discovered All Over The World And These Monsters Will Haunt Your Dreams

You guys head along to the beach, I think I’m just going to just stick by the pool. I just can’t run the risk of encountering a FUCKING TWO HEADED SHARK. My psyche is too fragile for that shit.

Fishermen from the Gulf of California and northwestern Mexico have began finding more and more two-headed sharks and scientists are baffled. The first one was spotted in 2008 by Christopher Johnston, a fisherman in the Indian Ocean. According to EcoWatch, Johnston reeled in a pregnant blue shark off the coast of Australia and when he cut it open, a two-headed fetus popped out. Johnston tried to save it by putting it in a tank and feeding it, but it died.

Since then, several two headed sharks have been discovered–mostly blue sharks because they carry large litters of up to 50 babies at a time in the womb, reports Daily Mail.

Each head typically contains a mouth, two eyes and a brain, and were joined behind the gills, according to a paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology.

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Scientists don’t know the exact cause for the mutation, but some suggest that the surge in mutants is due to genetic abnormalities triggered by over-fishing.

As shark population numbers dwindle, their gene pool shrinks, giving rise to more inbreeding which carries a high risk of passing on crippling genetic abnormalities.

I don’t care what the cause for these monsters is, I want them out of my life forever.

[h/t Daily Mail]