Shark with web feets?

PENANG, MALAYSIA -- Has anyone ever seen a baby shark with webbed feet? A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, on March 2007 made this unusual find when she was given the 1.7kg fish by a fisherman at the jetty recently.
I do not believe the picture was photoshopped.It is most probably some form of a mutation.

That's one interesting picture. If the creature is real, it should be preserved in a museum.

Well, as much as those do look like feet, I don't think they are. They appear to be the male sharks reproductive organs. I believe they are called claspers or something like that. They are an adaptation to the fin and in this case appear to have mutated. I would be interested to know more about this particular fish. I have heard some species of shark do actually walk along the bottom of the ocean using their fins.

I am afraid I can't provide more info on the subject. All I know is that it was published in a local newspaper last year.

And you are most probably right in saying that they are deformed or mutated clasper.

But some of my indonesian friends do tell me that there are sharks that have legs to walk on the bottom of the ocean.

I've heard of claspers, but those things look like feet with the correct number of digits. I wonder how old that species of shark is and whether it evolved from a land species. If we knew the scientific name for the creature, we could probably find out more from Google or one of the other information websites. Even if the creature is a mutation, it has to have gotten the feet genes somewhere.

Actually, if evolutionists theories are correct and fins used to be legs, and claspers are merely adapted fins, then I find it theoretically possible that this shark may be something of a genetic through-back. This is an interesting concept. Yes it is true that certain species of sharks do actually walk along the ocean floor on their fins. It is all very interesting how much there is to know about sharks. They are such diverse creatures in both size and function.

It's kind of neat... Considering that sharks are some of the oldest creatures on earth...

To think that this one may be evolving... after all these years? Weird...

I agree with that being the claspers... But whether genetically mutated? or Deformed? Strange...

Wish we had more info on it... It doesn't look photoshopped... It looks pretty real.