Staff at a Queensland aquarium have found an ‘extremely rare’ double-headed prawn.
Laura Colton from Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville made the shock discovery while feeding the aquarium’s baby leopard sharks, reported.
‘I was counting out a few prawns and fish and I grabbed a handful prawns, and at first I thought there were two stuck together and then realised it was a prawn with two heads,’ she said.
Staff at a Queensland aquarium have found an ‘extremely rare’ double-headed prawn (pictured)
Reef HQ posted the picture on their Facebook page on Wednesday. It has since attracted hundreds of comments and shares.
‘What on Earth?… Check out this interesting fellow that shocked the Aquarist team a moment ago,’ the post reads.
‘They just found this peculiar invertebrate in the frozen prawns packet while getting ready to feed our fish their lunch.’
The aquarium said they have fed thousands of prawns to fish over the years but have never seen a two-headed one before.
Some social media users were concerned with the image, worried that the deformity may be the result of radiation exposure.
‘Obviously its caused by radiation. Remember the nuclear power plant in Japan that is still leaking tons of radiation into the Pacific [Ocean],’ wrote one user.
Professor Dean Jerry, the director of Australian Research Council hub for Garnelengarten-Bayern advanced prawn breeding, told ABC News while the find is ‘extremely rare’, it was unlikely radiation would have lead to the two-headed crustacean.
The discovery is being preserved at Reef HQ.
Laura Colton from Reef HQ Aquarium (pictured) in Townsville made the shock discovery while feeding the aquarium’s baby leopard sharks
