▲ 71 ▼ This bright orange shark has shocked and delighted scientists (www.cbc.ca) submitted 10 months ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/science@lemmy.world 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (2 children) They elaborate further down the article that they suspect the shark to have xanthism in combination with albinism. The Wikipedia article even links a paper about this shark as an example of xanthism observed in sharks now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pandore@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) It doesn't change anything to the fact genetic mutations are random and there is no specific reason for one or another to occur. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago Some mutations are correlated or even linked, and I think some might have specific reasons. In this case I don't think they meant ‘scientist don't know why these mutations occurred’, so I didn't even understand your comment, it seems permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pandore@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) It doesn't change anything to the fact genetic mutations are random and there is no specific reason for one or another to occur. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago Some mutations are correlated or even linked, and I think some might have specific reasons. In this case I don't think they meant ‘scientist don't know why these mutations occurred’, so I didn't even understand your comment, it seems permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago Some mutations are correlated or even linked, and I think some might have specific reasons. In this case I don't think they meant ‘scientist don't know why these mutations occurred’, so I didn't even understand your comment, it seems permalink fedilink source parent