Did hammerhead sharks begin with one freakish mutant?

shithead shark are among the strange creature on Earth , with seemingly deformed heads that actually give them 360 - grade imaginativeness . But what evolutionary way could lead to such flaky features ? As this television propose , it might be a single freak chromosomal mutation .

This clip from BBC Earth offers the only somewhat crazy theory that dunderhead sharks are descended from a mutant shark that hold up about 14 million days ago . This particular shark was the one - in - a - million extreme mutation whose unusual dunderhead features were actually viable , giving it a luck to find an entirely unexampled species . Obviously , this is n’t awfully likely – andrecent research into hammerhead visionsuggests its general anatomy would be an advantageous adaptation after all , potentially making such an unconvincing extraction unnecessary .

Still , on a satellite this big and this ancient , it ’s not impossible for a species every once in a very corking while to arise from an uttermost mutation , and the hammerhead sharks seems as good a nominee as any . If nothing else , it ’s a really awesome idea to consider .