Sharks Make Evolutionary Leap, Achieve Bureaucracy.

Researchers off the northern coast of Australia made a remarkable discovery on Wednesday.

Operating a small submarine in shark infested waters, Captain Vince Coleman and his four man crew found what they describe as "an extensive array of filing cabinets" stretching over an area roughly three square miles.

"We believe this is where they maintain their records", Coleman said. "Of course, we'd love to get our hands in there, but it's too dangerous to get out of the sub. They appear to have made a rudimentary form of paper using compressed seaweed and plankton, and write on it using squid ink."

The first discovery of it's kind, Coleman suspects it won't be the last. "Just think about how many sharks

there are in world. There simply have to be more like this. We suspected sharks had taken a leap

when a thresher shark wearing a fanny pack was picked up by a tuna boat last year. Inside the pack

was what appeared to be the thresher's identification card and some live minnows."

"We've also identified a new species of shark which we have named the 'clerk shark'."

As far as the question of whether sharks have now become a greater danger to mankind, Coleman said, "Of course, coordination and division of labor are powerful tools for any species. Could sharks, for example, now blackmail us by threatening to shut down the world tourism industry? Very plausible, yes. I'd say, likely"

"However, those new powers are somewhat mitigated by all the paperwork and red tape they'll have to deal with now."