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'Mystery Sea Monster' Devours 3 meter (9 foot) Great White Shark
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Anslo
Scope Works
#1 - 2014-06-10 17:16:31 UTC
So in case you haven't heard the news, Nessie got bored of Scotland and decided to be a foody in Australia.

Jokes aside though, pretty interesting stuff. Wonder what could have done that? An even bigger shark like the article says? Some how I doubt it. The vast majority of our oceans are a mystery to us. Who knows what's down there, right?

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#2 - 2014-06-10 19:37:37 UTC
Maybe one of the giant squids that like to battle with sperm whales?

This story reminds me of the Neal Asher book The Skinner. There's one plotline with humans doing human stuff, and another with nasty sea creature characters, doing nasty sea creature predator stuff.
Matilda Cecilia Fock
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2014-06-10 20:50:59 UTC
Playing devil's advocate: the sensor was swallowed and dived. But it could have been bitten off the shark.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2014-06-10 20:55:46 UTC
Orca.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#5 - 2014-06-11 00:13:44 UTC
Clearly it was a dropbear.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#6 - 2014-06-11 00:37:44 UTC
Matilda Cecilia Fock wrote:
Playing devil's advocate: the sensor was swallowed and dived. But it could have been bitten off the shark.

Hmm.... Or thrown overboard from a Taiwanese fishing boat.
Leezir
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-06-11 01:44:30 UTC
I don't like swimming when I know there are minnows and seaweed around so I really hope there isn't some unknown sea monster eating great white sharks
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-06-11 02:11:52 UTC
There's always a bigger fish.

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stoicfaux
#9 - 2014-06-11 02:35:11 UTC
Occam says:
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Additional study of sharks in the area provided a possible answer to this question: According to researchers, larger great white sharks were found in the spot where the original shark met its fate.

These huge sharks, the scientists say, are big enough to have eaten another great white and are able to dive at the speed and depth observed by the tracking device.

It's not unprecedented for sharks to eat other sharks, and the researchers posit that a 2-ton "colossal cannibal great white shark" is a likely culprit in this case.


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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2014-06-11 03:21:15 UTC
Its the avenging spirit of Steve Irwin. Hes building his strength until he can devour all his enemies.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#11 - 2014-06-11 04:01:16 UTC
CNN.... I'm waiting for their usual commentary question to the guest (e.g. to Bill Nye etc) "Could this be a result of global warming?"

I vote Kraken Cool

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#12 - 2014-06-11 06:26:45 UTC
steve will be reincarnated as one of those big sea beasts from that pacific rim flick.
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#13 - 2014-06-11 06:27:37 UTC
edit: err double post
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-06-11 06:38:08 UTC
Webvan wrote:
CNN.... I'm waiting for their usual commentary question to the guest (e.g. to Bill Nye etc) "Could this be a result of global warming?"

I vote Kraken Cool


I say leviathan then!

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mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2014-06-11 10:09:24 UTC
welcome to australia everything kills here. were culling them here in perth at moment , big rift over it all . would'nt be an orca dont come this far south usually . i'd say maybe squid got some big suckers down here,they like to drown their food. caught a few six feet squid over the years biggest shark we caught was a 12 foot tiger shark , 4 hrs to land the bastard , good eating tho.

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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#16 - 2014-06-11 10:18:15 UTC
CNN wrote:
Additional study of sharks in the area provided a possible answer to this question: According to researchers, larger great white sharks were found in the spot where the original shark met its fate.

These huge sharks, the scientists say, are big enough to have eaten another great white and are able to dive at the speed and depth observed by the tracking device.

It's not unprecedented for sharks to eat other sharks, and the researchers posit that a 2-ton "colossal cannibal great white shark" is a likely culprit in this case.

Also this.

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#17 - 2014-06-11 10:28:31 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Webvan wrote:
CNN.... I'm waiting for their usual commentary question to the guest (e.g. to Bill Nye etc) "Could this be a result of global warming?"

I vote Kraken Cool


I say leviathan then!


It could be could be, a better explanation than say CNN asking if it was preposterous that flight 370 could have been eaten by a black hole RollLol
Black holes, global warming, I'm just on pins and needles waiting for their deep analysis to what may really have happened here Pirate

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#18 - 2014-06-11 12:59:15 UTC
heh

reminded me of this fun little series

nbc always cancelling the fun stuff Sad
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#19 - 2014-06-11 18:13:41 UTC
looks like some bugger was a bit hungry then Big smile
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#20 - 2014-06-12 14:12:34 UTC
Leezir wrote:
I don't like swimming when I know there are minnows and seaweed around so I really hope there isn't some unknown sea monster eating great white sharks

You might not like catfish noodling then. Check it out at around 00:45. My cousins in Oklahoma used to do this.
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