Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world's first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.

The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.

"It's very surprising because no one's ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination," Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.

"This is evolution in action."



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Two kinds of black-tipped shark (with different addresses) can mate? Color me amazed?

It's practically dogs and cats sleeping together.

But it's cool that it runs on both gasoline and electricity.

It could only happen here in Australia.

Just wait until they cross a grey nurse with a hammerhead - then there'll be trouble. The next step after that is sharktopuss.

I'll bet that porpoises and dolphins have been doing the deed, too. It's the weather here, you know. It encourages strangeness.

I can't wait to see what happens when they cross a Great White...

This gets us one step closer to Sharktopus.

Candygram.

Oh noes!

In the 60's, they crossed a Shark and a Jet.

Tragic results.