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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: lee martell

She left Norway?


61 posted on 06/07/2014 10:21:54 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

if was obozo, that would be ‘semi-white privilege’ wouldn’t it ?


62 posted on 06/07/2014 10:22:33 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

But it could be.


63 posted on 06/07/2014 10:22:37 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

Nah, 0bama couldn’t tackle a live sardine.


64 posted on 06/07/2014 10:22:57 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: wastedyears

Now that’s a possibility, I saw the video and it has a red dot on it.


65 posted on 06/07/2014 10:23:09 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike
A very old type of shark. About 60 feet long and massed about 90 tons.

Extinct.

We hope.

66 posted on 06/07/2014 10:23:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: OneVike

Giant squid, almost certainly.

I’m reminded of an incident at an aquarium (that was actually caught on camera). The aquarium needed to repair the tank their giant octopus was living in, so they temporarily moved the animal into their big “reef” tank. The aquarium staff was concerned, though, because the reef tank was where they housed their sharks, and they worried that they’d lose the octopus before they could get its tank repaired.

First day, the octopus hid in the rocks. Second day, no sign of octopus, but a couple of the sharks seemed to have been chewed up a bit. Third day, still no sign of the octopus, more sharks wounded and one dead. They put a camera in the tank that night. Camera clearly shows the octopus lurking on the side of the reef, and occasionally ambushing the sharks, pulling them against the reef with its tentacles, taking a few bites, then releasing the shark.

Cephalopods are vicious predators. Octopuses can be dangerous, but are intelligent enough that they can also be curious. Squids and cuttlefish on the other hand are just downright vicious; many divers won’t dive around the bigger squids like the Humboldt because they move so fast, and are strong enough to cause real trouble even to a human.

So, if a 1-meter squid can be dangerous to a human, a 2-3 meter squid is certainly strong (and intelligent) enough to destroy even a Great White.

Also, the movement pattern is consistent with a squid, spending lots of time deep down, with occasional forays up near the surface to feed.


67 posted on 06/07/2014 10:24:59 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: eartrumpet
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.

Good point. that never entered my head. But then again, my head is full of throbs and dizzyness lately.
68 posted on 06/07/2014 10:25:06 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

I don’t know what it was, but Discovery will have a team looking for it next season.


69 posted on 06/07/2014 10:26:01 PM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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To: P-Marlowe
You flip a shark on its back and it can’t breath. That’s the way killer whales kill them.

Is that true? never knew that. So they are like a cockroach.
70 posted on 06/07/2014 10:26:26 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

Architeuthis Dux.


71 posted on 06/07/2014 10:26:40 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: ArtDodger

No, check the video. The Smithsonian says it happened recently.


72 posted on 06/07/2014 10:28:09 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike
The Blob


73 posted on 06/07/2014 10:28:21 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: TigersEye

True, he would be the one gone in 60 seconds.

Oh God I wish....


74 posted on 06/07/2014 10:31:13 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes, we hope.... LOL


75 posted on 06/07/2014 10:31:46 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: TigersEye

Oh yea, the drugs are good, but sadly it’s better at screwing with the head than the pain.


76 posted on 06/07/2014 10:32:29 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: Little Pig

Now that is a show I would pay to see.


77 posted on 06/07/2014 10:34:33 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: OneVike

I saw some killer whale special where they did that to a great white. The whale just flipped upside down while holding the shark and the shark stopped moving.

So the next time you are about to be eaten by a great white, all you need to do is to grab it and flip it upside down and hold it still for about 5 minutes.


78 posted on 06/07/2014 10:35:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: bray

Yes I believe you are correct.

How’s it going bray, haven’t ran across you in awhile. Or maybe my many problems have just kept me from noticing.


79 posted on 06/07/2014 10:36:03 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: P-Marlowe

lol

I am sure that will come in handy.


80 posted on 06/07/2014 10:37:36 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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