Fisherman finds 100 kg shark head eaten by another, bigger creature – 02/04/2019

While fishing sharks on the coast New South Wales, Australia, a fisherman shared a photo on social networks that triggered all kinds of comments. The remains of a shark, who could belong to the species mako, generated a debate.

The shark, over 250 kilograms, had the body devoured by a creature even larger than the shark itself. Trapman Bermagui, the fisherman in question, shared the same March 28 the photo on social networks. This is how he found the remains of his head.

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"There is always something bigger in the ocean …" he wrote on social media next to the picture, about which Instagram warns that it 's Is one of a kind the contents that some people can find offensive

"We did not see what ate the mako," Bermagui told CNN. When the crew saw their heads in detail, they found another surprise: the beak of a swordfish encased, something they speculated to be the result of "an ancient battle.

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Along with the publication of images, hundreds of users have made badumptions about how this situation had been reached, according to the Spanish ABC newspaper.

For some users, the shark was eaten by another shark bigger, like the white shark or the tiger shark. For others, however, he was cannibalized by a specimen of his own kind. An option suggested that he could be attacked by an orca.

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For Tyler Bowling, Shark Research Program Leader at the Museum of Natural History in Florida, USA, the mako was probably attacked by a great white shark or similar, an badumption he shares with Trapman Bermagui , whose speculations suggest the attack. of a tiger shark.

Tiger sharks are among the largest sharks in the ocean, according to the Australian Great Barrier Reef Foundation, which measures between 3 and 5 meters long and weighs between 360 and 680 kilos according to CNN.