Sept. 14, 2025

Good News about An Orange Shark?

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Fishermen in Costa Rica caught and released a rare orange nurse shark, a sight never recorded before. In another story, a jacket found in a local charity shop contained a mysterious note in Chinese, possibly a boyfriend spell. In South Carolina, a sailboat mysteriously washed ashore, its circumstances yet to be explained. Meanwhile, in a Chicago suburb, firefighters successfully rescued a runaway ball python named Lucius from a commuter train control box. Lastly, an otter pup named Mingo was found snoring peacefully in the flamingo habitat at a zoo in England, baffling the staff.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Off the coast of Costa Rica, fishermen

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pulled in an orange shark. Yes, I said, orange shark.

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The fisherman caught something. Whatever it was, it was feisty.

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It took them half an hour to pull it to

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the surface. One of the fishermen, Garvins, said, we saw

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an orange globe below the water, and I said, what

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is this. The six foot nurse shark, which is mostly

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docile and their snouts have a hint of catfish to them,

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was orange. Researchers think it could be the first recorded

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case of an orange shark. Green biologist Daniel Naranjo Wait,

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his last name is Narnjo. No way. Now, despite my

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flawless accent, you may not know that naranjo translates to

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orange tree. Neuronja is the fruit, but nonjo is an

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orange tree the plant itself. I just found and that

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pretty coincidental there anyway. Mister Dermronjo, a marine biologist, said,

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I saw the photos. I was impressed. I was like, wow,

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this is something strange. He and his colleagues concluded the

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nurse shark's odd pigmentation, including the intense yellow orange on

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its body. Its ghostly white eyes with no visible iris,

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might be the result of two rare genetic conditions taking

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place at the same time, albinism and xanthism. Zan with

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an x. I'm not familiar with xanthism, but apparently it

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causes an excess of yellow pigments. The fishermen did let

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the shark go. They kissed its back, and they said

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to the shark, thank you for making the strip such

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a happy experience. Thank you for being here at the

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exact right moment by my boat, Thank you for taking

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my bait. Thank you, We love you. A shopper was

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at a local charity shop, saw a jacket, was like, hey,

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this looks pretty cool. Went through the pockets and found

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a piece of paper. Posted on Reddit, found this in

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a pocket. Anyone know what it means? What it might

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have been there? The piece of paper was covered in

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Chinese characters. The Reddit poster said, I translated it online.

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The translation wasn't great, so it doesn't make sense. According

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to one user, it says, I want to have a

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boyfriend who loves me in a lot, cherishes me, and

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is very generous to me. He is very handsome and

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is above five to nine tall. I will feel very

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secure when I'm with him. I will be extremely lucky.

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Praise the universe. I will meet such a man in

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November of twenty twenty three. Please yes, it was a

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stranger's boyfriend spell. Another Reddit poster said it's a Chinese

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New Year tradition. Often these are folded up, pretty and burnt,

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but this one wasn't. Another asked how much of the

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description matches you. Would it be funny if the manifesting

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spell worked on the jacket itself. I don't have the answer.

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I don't know how tall the new possessor of the

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jacket is, and I don't know if the original poster

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met their true love. But I like the story. Let's

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keep it weird. Today, in South Carolina, a mysterious sailboat

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It just washed up on the shore. A local said,

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this is a little unusual. I lived out here most

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of my life. I've never seen a sailboat dis close

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and washed up on the shore like this. Some witnesses

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said they saw it floating in the ocean hours before

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it became ashore. A salvage company was contacted. The US

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Coast Guard said they'll let us know more when they

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know more. Pretty cool looking sailboat and the owner is

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accounted for a mystery. Is that good news? John? I

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don't know, but I'll tell you what I've had it

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with these snakes on this train. Firefighters in a Chicago

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suburb were called to a commuter train to help capture

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a python that got loose for its owner and slithered

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into a control box panel. The Oak Park Fire Department

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said firefighters responded to a CTA Green Line train for

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assistance in securing a petball python snake Lucius. The snake

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had gotten away from its owner went into the control box.

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The fire department said, we were able to open the box,

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secure the snake and returned Lucius to a very appreciative

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pirate his owner. In England, in the Flamingo habitat at

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the Zoo, they found an otter. The otter is named Mingo,

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only a few months old. Zoo officials found the otter

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snoring peacefully. They explained, Mingo was found early in the morning,

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curled up on the bank of the main lake out

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and they open fastest leap, snoring his head off. We

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gave him a few hours to see if mom, the

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otter would reappear. Knowing otters, it's odd behavior to see

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you pop out in the open like that. He seemed

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very strong and was very vocal when awake. One of

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the staffers at the zoo said were still baffled as

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to how Mingo ended up in the flamingo habitat. It's

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a total mystery. Those are your five good news stories

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for today. A little weird today, like the program Without

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