Neighbors Richard Doornbos and Al Embry have stumbled upon numerous mysteries of the Mojave Desert, but never anything like this.

http://www.hesperiastar.com/story.php?id=1594_0_1_0_M

But the size of this specimen suggests it would be much too large for just any living room fish bowl.

No shit.

After the Beluga in Alaska, now this. If any more fishy stories of fish in outlandish places pop up, I am beginning to suspect a viral campaign of some sorts…

I hear they found a giant in Iran.

There was an article in this morning’s local paper (for York, PA, USA) where a kid and his grandfather caught a catfish at a baseball diamond. Of course, we’ve had a lot of flooding up here so the baseball field was underwater.

A cursory Internet search suggests the shark is a Leopard Shark, a member of the triakidae family of houndsharks that might be displayed in an aquarium.

No. It’s obviously a land-dwelling Upland Shark. (Will people never learn?) Since there aren’t many trees in the desert, it probably leaps from cactus to cactus.

Alex - 30 June 2006 02:38 PM

A cursory Internet search suggests the shark is a Leopard Shark, a member of the triakidae family of houndsharks that might be displayed in an aquarium.

No. It’s obviously a land-dwelling Upland Shark. (Will people never learn?) Since there aren’t many trees in the desert, it probably leaps from cactus to cactus.