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First, read about this strange creature found in Australian waters:
http://ca.news.yahoo...-070347608.html
Now, after you read the article, I wish to ask this question: If there can be a hybrid Australian Black-Tip/Common Black-Tip, what other hybrid mixes can we have for sharks? Perhaps a Hammerhead Shark with a Great White Shark? What are the evolutionary advantages or disadvantages of the different interbred shark possibilities?
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Hybrid sharks
What kinds could we have potentially?
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4 January 2012 - 01:10 AM
Moontanman 
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TransformerRobot, on 4 January 2012 - 12:55 AM, said:
First, read about this strange creature found in Australian waters:
http://ca.news.yahoo...-070347608.html
Now, after you read the article, I wish to ask this question: If there can be a hybrid Australian Black-Tip/Common Black-Tip, what other hybrid mixes can we have for sharks? Perhaps a Hammerhead Shark with a Great White Shark? What are the evolutionary advantages or disadvantages of the different interbred shark possibilities?
http://ca.news.yahoo...-070347608.html
Now, after you read the article, I wish to ask this question: If there can be a hybrid Australian Black-Tip/Common Black-Tip, what other hybrid mixes can we have for sharks? Perhaps a Hammerhead Shark with a Great White Shark? What are the evolutionary advantages or disadvantages of the different interbred shark possibilities?
The various blacktip sharks are rather closely related, hammer heads are very distant from great whites, I wouldn't expect them to hybridize...
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4 January 2012 - 01:21 AM
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Well they can't be that far apart genetically, can they? If you can, show me a DNA comparison between a Hammerhead and Great White, then we'll hypothesize about breeding the 2 of them together.
Then again, depending on how the 2 sharks behave towards each other, they might have a hard time incorporating each other's mating rituals.
Then again, depending on how the 2 sharks behave towards each other, they might have a hard time incorporating each other's mating rituals.
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4 January 2012 - 01:40 AM
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TransformerRobot, on 4 January 2012 - 01:21 AM, said:
Well they can't be that far apart genetically, can they? If you can, show me a DNA comparison between a Hammerhead and Great White, then we'll hypothesize about breeding the 2 of them together.
Then again, depending on how the 2 sharks behave towards each other, they might have a hard time incorporating each other's mating rituals.
Then again, depending on how the 2 sharks behave towards each other, they might have a hard time incorporating each other's mating rituals.
Well then by your line of reasoning catfish should be able to hybridize with salmon, they are both fish...
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4 January 2012 - 01:42 AM
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I've got one hell of an imagination my friend. There's always the possibility, and you still haven't show me that DNA comparison. =P
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4 January 2012 - 01:53 AM
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TransformerRobot, on 4 January 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:
I've got one hell of an imagination my friend. There's always the possibility, and you still haven't show me that DNA comparison. =P
You made the assertion, you look it up, google is your friend....
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4 January 2012 - 02:29 AM
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It's not easy to find anything on shark DNA comparisons.
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11 January 2012 - 04:28 PM
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Hello? Is this thing on?
There is a rather interesting backstory to this particular piece. Amy Coopes has written a few different versions of the story to constantly push the "climate change" angle even after being alerted to the study leader specifically denying a link.
If anyone is interested in the actual press release from UQ that led to the article, it's here.
The bottom line is that generally accepted theories about shark breeding say that they don't interbreed much. The finding of 57 interbred sharks shows that this actually occurs far more than anyone thought and therefore challenges the consensus view, which is probably why it was thought worthy of a press release in the first place. It could be that hybrids are far more common than we thought.
To quote the press release; "The results of this research show that we still have a lot to learn about these important ocean predators,"
If anyone is interested in the actual press release from UQ that led to the article, it's here.
The bottom line is that generally accepted theories about shark breeding say that they don't interbreed much. The finding of 57 interbred sharks shows that this actually occurs far more than anyone thought and therefore challenges the consensus view, which is probably why it was thought worthy of a press release in the first place. It could be that hybrids are far more common than we thought.
To quote the press release; "The results of this research show that we still have a lot to learn about these important ocean predators,"
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15 February 2012 - 06:14 PM
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Yes, it would be a good subject for a horror film.
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