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

[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.

[OneVike]

OK, what is so big, it could devour such a big shark?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Giant squid, sperm whale. Boogeyman. Al Gore.

[P-Marlowe]

Killer whales kill great whites.

[Celtic Conservative]

Kraken?

CC

[Salamander]

The Old Gods awaken ping.

Yog, sothoth!

[Salamander]

LOL

[Red_Devil 232]

Its Megaladon, I tell ya!

[OneVike]

Yes, but from the monitor, something swallowed in in one bite. Killer whales kill by eating as they kill. This sucker died fast.

[staytrue]

Godzilla ?

[kingattax]

must be an omen against “great white privilege”

[GeronL]

Godzilla from Manila

Float like a bubble, sting like a ... something

[lee martell]

Nessie is back in town!

[Army Air Corps]

Did you let your pet run loose, again?

[OneVike]

It seems I put the word Big in the wrong place. Could you please change the headline from;

Something Ate This Shark... But What? (Something Enormous Big Ate a Very, Very White Shark)

to

Something Ate This Shark... But What? (Something Enormous Ate a Very, Very Big White Shark)

[OneVike]

Does this fit your catastroiphism ping criteria?

[ponygirl]

Did it also eat Flight 370?

[ponygirl]

Where’s the link?

[Chode]

now ya did it... ya prolly woke it up

[keat]

Jaguar shark, no doubt. Probably the same one that are Esteban.

[shibumi]

"Nom, Nom, Nom ...Ryleh!...Nom, Nom ....."