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Something Ate This Shark... But What? (Something Enormous Ate a Very, Very Big Great White Shark)
Smithsonian Channel on You Tube ^ | May 30, 2014 | Smithsonian Channel

Posted on 06/07/2014 9:39:25 PM PDT by OneVike



A group of marine biologists off the coast of Australia tagged a healthy great white shark. Then, a few months later, the tag washed ashore. When researchers analyzed data from the tag, they were confronted with a mystery that was deeply weird, and slightly terrifying.

In this video, we learn what the researchers found on the tag. A few weeks after tagging, the shark appears to have been abruptly dragged down into a deep ocean trench, then eaten. The tag remained in the digestive system of the animal that ate it for several days. Whatever animal it was seemed to be bobbing to the ocean surface once in a while, though it never plunged as deeply as it had after it ate the shark.

What kind of deep-dwelling alpha predator did this? Obviously it's very possible that the shark's tag was eaten, but that still leaves us wondering what could bite a hunk off a shark, then zoom down to an incredible depth and back up again? This video is a reminder of how little we actually know about shark behavior and deep sea life.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; cryptozoology; monster; shark
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To: OneVike

I’m sorry! I hope you feel better soon.


41 posted on 06/07/2014 10:10:22 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: kingattax
must be an omen against “great white privilege”

LOLOL!

42 posted on 06/07/2014 10:10:26 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: OneVike

You’re welcome. I would have done it for you but I thought you’d like to know for future reference as well.


43 posted on 06/07/2014 10:10:59 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks I sent to notice. I really never should be trying this on drugs. LOL


44 posted on 06/07/2014 10:12:33 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike
Yes, but from the monitor, something swallowed in in one bite. Killer whales kill by eating as they kill. This sucker died fast.

It swallowed the tag, maybe not the whole shark. Something could have bitten off only the dorsal fin which is where I see they put most tags.

45 posted on 06/07/2014 10:13:31 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet

true


46 posted on 06/07/2014 10:13:56 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: OneVike

Only one creature could make such a nastee bite on a shark.
It must be an ocean moose, like the one that bit my sister.


47 posted on 06/07/2014 10:14:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: ponygirl

Thanks. It’s been a few days of hell, but I figure God allows us these days so we know we need to lean on Him instead of our own strength.

I saw this and really thought everyone would find it interesting.


48 posted on 06/07/2014 10:15:07 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: tumblindice

LOL, I would like to see that Moose.


49 posted on 06/07/2014 10:15:47 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: 21twelve

Let me know if you ever stumble upon it.


50 posted on 06/07/2014 10:17:06 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Release the Kraken.

It did live in the deep.


51 posted on 06/07/2014 10:17:41 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: Salamander

In the end times we will be seeing some strange things, as knowledge increases.


52 posted on 06/07/2014 10:18:46 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: Sawdring

You flip a shark on its back and it can’t breath. That’s the way killer whales kill them.


53 posted on 06/07/2014 10:19:16 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: OneVike

Moochelle with the munchies.


54 posted on 06/07/2014 10:19:27 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: OneVike
Must be some good stuff! ;^)

Glad I'm not on it and sorry that you have to be. The choice between pain and drugs is a real Catch22.

55 posted on 06/07/2014 10:19:31 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

What’s Megaladon, I must have missed that character, or monster


56 posted on 06/07/2014 10:19:52 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

A little hype going on here. This event happened years ago. Also it was determined (don’t ask me how) that this 9-ft shark was killed and eaten by a 16-ft great white. It happens....


57 posted on 06/07/2014 10:20:07 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: staytrue

NO, Godziwwa!


58 posted on 06/07/2014 10:20:17 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

Did it taste like chicken?


59 posted on 06/07/2014 10:20:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kingattax
must be an omen against “great white privilege”

So your saying it's Obama?
60 posted on 06/07/2014 10:21:19 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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