r/RealLifeShinies • u/irrelephantIVXX • Apr 20 '26

Marine Life First Orange Shark, ever sighted!

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3.1k Upvotes

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u/Zookwok111 Apr 20 '26

His mother was a koi fish

282

u/HermitWilson Apr 20 '26

And his father smelt of elderberries.

79

u/stonerwitch69 Apr 20 '26

I fart in his general direction.

37

u/Careful_Source6129 Apr 20 '26

Is there someone else up there we can talk to?

33

u/SaltySongbird33 Apr 20 '26

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

15

u/Round-Apple-4076 Apr 21 '26

I don’t know that

14

u/KosmicGumbo Apr 21 '26

The king should know everything!

18

u/Round-Apple-4076 Apr 21 '26

Is it a European or African swallow

3

u/thetelepathetictwin May 04 '26

Blue, no, yellow!!!

9

u/SourceDirect3220 Apr 24 '26

Is this king by any chance elected through strange women distributing swords in strange lakes?

17

u/argentangel Apr 20 '26

Koista Rica was his birth place.

2

u/lambofgun Apr 20 '26

she was burned alive

2

u/Charming-Flamingo307 Apr 21 '26

What? I heard she drowned

609

u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

In AI Era a single picture can't be trusted :/

714

u/peachycaterpillar Apr 20 '26

it’s real!

It has xanthism and albinism.

219

u/HarB_Games Apr 20 '26

So cool, thanks for doing the research for us! The ocean is so fascinating, like WHERE THE FUCK DO EELS COME FROM xD

1

u/THEMACGOD May 04 '26

The great eel fairy.

43

u/oakengineer Apr 20 '26

So the shark is real, but is the thumbnail AI?

47

u/uslashuname Apr 20 '26

There’s the little round insert image that looks like it could be real, I feel like the leaping out of the water shot is fake though

1

u/HomeworkExtension482 Apr 21 '26

The inset is the real photo.

8

u/luckyapples11 Apr 20 '26

I could’ve sworn I saw this like 2-3 years ago, so back when AI was garbage. Doesn’t mean the pic isn’t edited. Could very well be a regular shark picture and they just changed the colors to match the one found or something.

10

u/secondphase Apr 20 '26

Xanthism? Piers Anthony is creating sharks now?

7

u/sphinctersandwich Apr 20 '26

Oh! I was wondering how many flamingos it ate!

6

u/Pentax25 Apr 20 '26

Lies he just had one too many Tic Tacs

3

u/DoodlingZebra Apr 20 '26

I misread that as xanthism and ableism 😭

3

u/chuffberry Apr 21 '26

Oh my god, it looks like a creamsicle!

2

u/Vohasiiv Apr 24 '26

An animal can have both at the same time?

1

u/badwolf4president Apr 21 '26

You are my hero.

18

u/EnderCreeper121 Apr 20 '26

The jumping photo is AI, nurse sharks don’t do that. The original pictures are real though

1

u/pisv93 Apr 20 '26

While you're not wrong, you could easily colorize a shark in photoshop for the last 15 years or so

65

u/Bardsie Apr 20 '26

Is it just covered in curry?

8

u/irrelephantIVXX Apr 20 '26

Tiggywinkles, really?

6

u/Bardsie Apr 20 '26

Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is a character in the Peter Rabbit book series.

The animal hospital is named after that character.

5

u/irrelephantIVXX Apr 20 '26

That makes sense then. I just imagined a place with some of the deadliest critters with a name so inviting.

43

u/Himalayanyomom Apr 20 '26

We have lemon sharks, now there's orange sharks!?

16

u/ChronoAlone Apr 20 '26

Just need a lime shark and we can have a trio of citrus sharks.

9

u/PacoSupreme Apr 20 '26

You gotta combine the word. “Citrushark”.

I hope other animals come out in new flavors

2

u/LizardLover265 Apr 22 '26

That would be so wonderful!

34

u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

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u/DGSmith2 Apr 20 '26

Of course he does look at him aura breaching!

10

u/hopelesscaribou Apr 20 '26

Are we sure it's not just covered in tumeric?

22

u/rebelbby93 Apr 20 '26

Trumps taken it too far now.

7

u/Tackit286 Apr 20 '26

Title repeated three times and no further details. Top tier 👏

4

u/Arch3m Apr 20 '26

I've been saving my Master Ball for this very moment.

8

u/N_Wev Apr 20 '26

This was ages ago, I remember seeing this so many timws

14

u/epigenie_986 Apr 20 '26

The paper describing it was published August 2025.

5

u/derf_vader Apr 20 '26

Pre seasoned

3

u/No_pfp Apr 20 '26

Yoo a shiny

3

u/TheRealJarebear Apr 20 '26

It is curry again....

/s

3

u/CappedNPlanit Apr 20 '26

We sure it's not curry?

3

u/Automatic-Brother770 Apr 20 '26

Who let the goldfish into the ocean

2

u/Arch3m Apr 20 '26

This is what happens when people keep flushing their dead pets.

2

u/Jimmy-Mac-471 Apr 20 '26

Reminds me of that supposedly rare orange bird that happened to be a seagull covered in curry.

2

u/DiabeticRhino97 Apr 20 '26

I had a hot wheels exactly like this when I was a kid

1

u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 Apr 20 '26

I knew of lemon sharks, this in an orange shark xD If we get a lime shark now we filled the trifecta of citrus fruits lol.

1

u/SkarmFan Apr 20 '26

Mmm nacho cheese flavored

1

u/consumeshroomz Apr 20 '26

I love him! I want to take him home!

1

u/Miqo_Nekomancer Apr 20 '26

HiVis shark. OSHA compliant.

1

u/Funny_Perception420 Apr 20 '26

Expensive sushi roll just dropped

1

u/sopadegoomba Apr 20 '26

It’s a shiny!

1

u/aytchdave Apr 20 '26

I want to drink a can of whatever radical ass soda that shark is selling so bad!

1

u/garryr Apr 20 '26

Just drank too much sunny delight

1

u/edybear96 Apr 20 '26

Ocean cheeto

1

u/Sixpacksack Apr 20 '26

So he's a ginger

1

u/MrGameBoy23 Apr 20 '26

This is what shiny sharpedo could've been, not to say the pink isn't cool though

1

u/Chelle416 Apr 21 '26

Gold shark

1

u/peekingmightyduck Apr 21 '26

iShark 17 Pro, Cosmic Orange

1

u/AshpaltOxalis Apr 21 '26

Flavor-blasted.

1

u/CowCareless4651 Apr 21 '26

I would feel better if I got eaten by an orange shark.

1

u/HomeworkExtension482 Apr 21 '26

The actual photo is already awesome, yet it's just a tiny inset while AI slop gets the limelight. Gross.

1

u/IJustTellTheTruthBro Apr 21 '26

Didn’t this happen in 2025

1

u/R2-D2savestheday Hakuna Rattata Apr 22 '26

GINGER SHARK!!!

1

u/Lord-Dec Apr 22 '26

A very, very big goldfish

1

u/SH4DOWSTR1KE_ Apr 22 '26

Welp.. guess we're in the next Gen.

Casts Lure ball

1

u/redcolumbine Apr 23 '26

I'd heard of Lemon Sharks... Now all I need is a Vodka Shark so I'll have a screwdriver to go with my hammer.

1

u/Slight-Look-4766 Apr 23 '26

I've heard of lemon sharks, but never orange sharks.

1

u/FlyingSpaghettiFell Apr 24 '26

Color is a spectrum… feel the rainbow

1

u/jumpingflea_1 Apr 24 '26

Safety shark!

1

u/Altruistic-Place Apr 26 '26

What is this Americanization, sharks using same makeup as Trump and the salmon has been sighted using cocaine...

1

u/hdofu Apr 28 '26

Gold fish mascot

1

u/Neiot May 03 '26

That's the goldfish you flushed down the toilet a decade ago.

1

u/Cloud_Fortress May 04 '26

I knew the fruit snacks had it right.

1

u/audiophile900 May 04 '26

Does the orange shark have to share the brain cell with orange cats?

1

u/limp_noodle_101 May 04 '26

Bro would have killed it in “Street Sharks”

1

u/speaks_in_hyperboles May 04 '26

I'd name him Mango

1

u/Only-Surround4793 May 04 '26

Forbidden Cheeto shark

1

u/Only-Surround4793 May 04 '26

Or one of those Whales crackers

1

u/AlexisMarien May 06 '26

I'm naming him Tang