A mysterious animal ate an entire 9-foot great white shark
Scientists
in Australia tagged a healthy 9-foot great white shark as part of
program to track these animals. Four months later they found the
tracking device washed up on a beach. Something—something really big—had eaten this apex predator. But what creature could dine on such ferocious prey?
The
recovered tracking device showed a rapid temperature rise and a sudden
1,900-foot-deep plunge. It stayed there for many days, moving around and
occasionally ascending to go down again until it finally reached the
shore. That's all the information that scientists gathered from the
tracking device.
The
researchers believe the data shows that a super-predator gobbled the
shark, then swam down at high speed, and kept going on with his life.
The recorded temperature indicates that the tracking device was inside
the mysterious monster's digestive system until it got out.
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