Great White Devoured by ‘Mystery Sea Monster’? Scientists have solved the mystery of the nine-foot (2.7 meters) great white shark eaten by a super predator, in Australia’s Southern Ocean.
When researchers GPS-tagged a great white, they didn’t imagine what would happen two months later. The device was found on a beach, and its data revealed that the animal had suddenly plunged 1,900 feet deep into the ocean.
“When she first came in, she came in with a real swagger,” said filmmaker Dave Riggs who was documenting the tagging process. “She was three meters long, didn’t have a mark on her.”
After a beach-goer found the tag four months later, the recorded data told a dramatic story.
Early on Christmas Eve, the shark’s tag plummeted nearly 2,000 feet into an underwater canyon along the Continental Shelf.
After the drastic change in depth, the temperature on the tag rose quickly – jumping from 46 degrees to 76 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature change could only have been the result of the tag ending up in another animal’s stomach, scientists say.
But what creature could have eaten this ferocious predator?
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