TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A peculiar-looking bull shark with an abnormality was captured successful Florida past month.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) called the unsocial carnal a "squiggly shark" owed to its process appearing to instrumentality connected a wavy form.

"The shark appears to person immoderate signifier of scoliosis oregon spinal deformity affecting the vertebral column," the FWC said successful a June 14 Facebook post. The bureau besides shared pictures and an x-ray representation of a seatrout that had a akin unusual signifier to its vertebral column.

Brian Tittle, who lives crossed from NASA's launchpad successful Titusville, Florida, was sportfishing with his son, Logan, successful his backyard erstwhile helium caught the shark astir 3 p.m. connected June 2.

"We food successful our backyard each accidental we get. [It] conscionable truthful happened that I gave each the guys an aboriginal time disconnected to spell sportfishing astatine my house," Tittle, who owns Tittle Home Solutions LLC, said. "My lad and I made it home, got ready, got bait done the rods, retired waiting for the guys to get and we ended up catching a shark earlier the unit got here."

While the shark's information is rare, the FWC said its squad has encountered akin anomalies successful different sharks and bony food species.

According to Tittle, it's not antithetic for him to drawback sharks, truthful arsenic soon arsenic they had a bite, helium knew he'd caught 1 "by the mode it was pulling the line."

"We fought the shark for an hour, and portion lassoing it and bringing it retired of the water, we noticed his process deformity. At archetypal thought, I thought it was possibly a vessel propeller wounded oregon breached bone. I knew thing was disconnected with it, truthful I took pictures of him and sent them to a person of excavation astatine the FWC probe section and helium confirmed that it was scoliosis," Tittle said.

Tittle said the squiggly shark was astir 4 feet agelong oregon possibly a small bigger and weighed betwixt 115-120 pounds.

"We were some truly amazed by the mode its process was formed; however, we bash not judge it affected its quality to aquatics owed to it taking an hr to reel it in. We released the shark arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable aft taking a fewer photos and [it] was unharmed and swam distant nether bully health. We haven't caught him again yet, but we're inactive trying," helium said.