September 4, 2025 • 8 mins
#STRANGESCIENCE – This bright orange shark has shocked and delighted scientists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for strange science. Science. It's like weird science,
but strange. There's some of these.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sometimes we do these stories about strange science, and I
don't think our brains.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Are ready to accept certain things. Are we talking about
the holographic reality? Oh, the matrix that we live in?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, that's part of it, Yes, But I'm also thinking
about just occurrences in nature that we just aren't ready for.
Think of the smallest dog you've ever seen in your life, okay,
and then think of that dog as a puppy, Like
there's a certain there's a certain size that even even
if you've been around newborn, you know, two or three
(00:53):
week old puppies, there are certain size. But there have
been puppies that are even tinier than that, And that,
for some reason, is one of those things I think of,
like how does that? How does that exist in this world?
And it's not eaten by some bigger creature. There's also
birds that don't look like they should work, and well,
(01:18):
I just mean or blue lobster. You've seen those, you know,
those images of blue lobsters that roll up on the
you know, the coast of Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Every once in a while. There was a shark that showed.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Up off the coast of Court, Costa Rica, that was
the color of an orange creamsickle.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Mm hm. They also well, they also say describe it
as a candy coated carnivore.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is a strange looking orange shark.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And the executive director of Costa Rica's Rescue Center for
Endanger Endangered Marine Species said, that is crazy about the
video that he saw that showed this orange shark. He
hasn't seen it in a relation right, And the question
is do these orange sharks happen very often and they're
(02:13):
just rare or is this a one of a kind.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They say that this is a rare combination of genetic
mutations is responsible for the shark's unusual coloring.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It was a group of fishermen.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Who spotted reeled in the mysterious fish in August and
a catch and release program and that's how they got
to look at this orange shark. Now, ironically, coincidentally, you
mentioned the executive director of Costa Rica's Rescue Center for
Endangered Marine Species. His name is Daniel Naranjo, which is
(02:52):
Spanish for orange.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They said, you mentioned those two genetic things that they
think probably these two genetic mutations that occurred simultaneously in
the shark.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
One of them is albinism.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Obviously, an albino shark, right, which would remove any of
the pigment, But they also said that it might have
the condition of xanthism or xanthochromism, which is an unusually
yellow pigmentation in an animal, often associated with lack of
(03:26):
red pigment and then replaced with yellow.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Very rare.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Kind of yeah, And for some reason, the combination they
believe of an albino shark with xantho xanthochromism turned it
orange as opposed to you know, like a bright pink
or a faded white kind of you know, what you
might expect from an albino animal. So they said that
(03:57):
there was a Cornell study University one time of unusual
looking birds. Four percent of birds were described as xanthochromistic,
compared with seventy six percent of albinos. The opposite of
xanthochromism is a deficiency in or the complete absence of
the yellow pigment, which is also very rare, known as axanthism.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So what color would them? Just hurt my head? Yeah?
Maybe bright red?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, all I know is our baby Sloan she had
a little case of jaundice.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh did you get the hot dog warmer lamp?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Or did you know we were told to strip her
down and take her outside and hold her in the
sunlight for I think it was ten minutes a day.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, and we did, like Simba and our neighbors. Look
a look at her little naked body out there. But
we are in the middle of our strange science stories,
and this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If you're a little high, probably might be easier to
wrap your head around the idea that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The world around you is a cosmic hologram. I tried
to get through this.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Scary now, it's not the old matrix discussion of everything
you see has been programmed and is being piped into
the back of your neck like Canna reeves. This is
a modern idea in physics called the holographic principle that
suggests that time and space and gravity are all encoded
(05:33):
in a lower dimension, maybe inside a black hole. This
idea says that all of its properties originate from the
two dimensional boundary of the black hole, creating a three
dimensional volume as if projected from a flat You said.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It might be easier if we were high, right, did
you bring anything that, No, you got to do this cold?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
There's a guy Uziel Alrett, physicist, senior researcher at an
organization called Inspire Institute back in Virginia, trying to uncover
the true nature of consciousness, what makes us humans conscious?
And he says that, like the universe, the brain could
be manifesting holographic duality, meaning that there are two very
(06:23):
different descriptions of reality that could describe the same system,
like two sides of one coin. Still high, still sober,
still sober, not quite grasping it. But for example, if
consciousness really works as this dual system, one part in
(06:45):
the invisible quantum realm, then different particles in the brain
couldn't just fire in isolation. They have to lock together,
as if stitched by invisible threads. And if the brain
is a large and tangled system, you're showing that many
particles in the brain are working together as a team.
In other words, the brain wouldn't just be billions of
neurons randomly firing separately. If it's activity is entangled within
(07:07):
the brain, that it might explain how our subjective experiences
can emerge. Should I go on, are you high yet? Yeah, exactly,
a natural high from this.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
How does consciousness act back on the physics of the
brain to announce its existence. That's one of the questions
he asks. Can you imagine having a beer with this guy?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't even want to fathom it. That would just be.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So it So hold on. So I'm if I'm seeing
you here?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Is it a hologram or a holographic image that you're
here and that we're probably in two separate places altogether.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I'm really at home breastfeeding Sloan right now. It
could be, but it's just she wishes I was.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, you can go eight
It's time for strange science. Science. It's like weird science,
but strange. There's some of these.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sometimes we do these stories about strange science, and I
don't think our brains.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Are ready to accept certain things. Are we talking about
the holographic reality? Oh, the matrix that we live in?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, that's part of it, Yes, But I'm also thinking
about just occurrences in nature that we just aren't ready for.
Think of the smallest dog you've ever seen in your life, okay,
and then think of that dog as a puppy, Like
there's a certain there's a certain size that even even
if you've been around newborn, you know, two or three
(00:53):
week old puppies, there are certain size. But there have
been puppies that are even tinier than that, And that,
for some reason, is one of those things I think of,
like how does that? How does that exist in this world?
And it's not eaten by some bigger creature. There's also
birds that don't look like they should work, and well,
(01:18):
I just mean or blue lobster. You've seen those, you know,
those images of blue lobsters that roll up on the
you know, the coast of Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Every once in a while. There was a shark that showed.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Up off the coast of Court, Costa Rica, that was
the color of an orange creamsickle.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Mm hm. They also well, they also say describe it
as a candy coated carnivore.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is a strange looking orange shark.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
And the executive director of Costa Rica's Rescue Center for
Endanger Endangered Marine Species said, that is crazy about the
video that he saw that showed this orange shark. He
hasn't seen it in a relation right, And the question
is do these orange sharks happen very often and they're
(02:13):
just rare or is this a one of a kind.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
They say that this is a rare combination of genetic
mutations is responsible for the shark's unusual coloring.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It was a group of fishermen.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Who spotted reeled in the mysterious fish in August and
a catch and release program and that's how they got
to look at this orange shark. Now, ironically, coincidentally, you
mentioned the executive director of Costa Rica's Rescue Center for
Endangered Marine Species. His name is Daniel Naranjo, which is
(02:52):
Spanish for orange.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They said, you mentioned those two genetic things that they
think probably these two genetic mutations that occurred simultaneously in
the shark.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
One of them is albinism.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Obviously, an albino shark, right, which would remove any of
the pigment, But they also said that it might have
the condition of xanthism or xanthochromism, which is an unusually
yellow pigmentation in an animal, often associated with lack of
(03:26):
red pigment and then replaced with yellow.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Very rare.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Kind of yeah, And for some reason, the combination they
believe of an albino shark with xantho xanthochromism turned it
orange as opposed to you know, like a bright pink
or a faded white kind of you know, what you
might expect from an albino animal. So they said that
(03:57):
there was a Cornell study University one time of unusual
looking birds. Four percent of birds were described as xanthochromistic,
compared with seventy six percent of albinos. The opposite of
xanthochromism is a deficiency in or the complete absence of
the yellow pigment, which is also very rare, known as axanthism.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So what color would them? Just hurt my head? Yeah?
Maybe bright red?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well, all I know is our baby Sloan she had
a little case of jaundice.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh did you get the hot dog warmer lamp?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Or did you know we were told to strip her
down and take her outside and hold her in the
sunlight for I think it was ten minutes a day.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, and we did, like Simba and our neighbors. Look
a look at her little naked body out there. But
we are in the middle of our strange science stories,
and this is one of those.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If you're a little high, probably might be easier to
wrap your head around the idea that.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The world around you is a cosmic hologram. I tried
to get through this.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Scary now, it's not the old matrix discussion of everything
you see has been programmed and is being piped into
the back of your neck like Canna reeves. This is
a modern idea in physics called the holographic principle that
suggests that time and space and gravity are all encoded
(05:33):
in a lower dimension, maybe inside a black hole. This
idea says that all of its properties originate from the
two dimensional boundary of the black hole, creating a three
dimensional volume as if projected from a flat You said.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It might be easier if we were high, right, did
you bring anything that, No, you got to do this cold?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
There's a guy Uziel Alrett, physicist, senior researcher at an
organization called Inspire Institute back in Virginia, trying to uncover
the true nature of consciousness, what makes us humans conscious?
And he says that, like the universe, the brain could
be manifesting holographic duality, meaning that there are two very
(06:23):
different descriptions of reality that could describe the same system,
like two sides of one coin. Still high, still sober,
still sober, not quite grasping it. But for example, if
consciousness really works as this dual system, one part in
(06:45):
the invisible quantum realm, then different particles in the brain
couldn't just fire in isolation. They have to lock together,
as if stitched by invisible threads. And if the brain
is a large and tangled system, you're showing that many
particles in the brain are working together as a team.
In other words, the brain wouldn't just be billions of
neurons randomly firing separately. If it's activity is entangled within
(07:07):
the brain, that it might explain how our subjective experiences
can emerge. Should I go on, are you high yet? Yeah, exactly,
a natural high from this.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
How does consciousness act back on the physics of the
brain to announce its existence. That's one of the questions
he asks. Can you imagine having a beer with this guy?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't even want to fathom it. That would just be.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So it So hold on. So I'm if I'm seeing
you here?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Is it a hologram or a holographic image that you're
here and that we're probably in two separate places altogether.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I'm really at home breastfeeding Sloan right now. It
could be, but it's just she wishes I was.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, you can go eight
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