A fisher in Australia ( of class , it ’s Australia ) just pulled the severed head of a mako shark from the deep down waters of New South Wales .
Trapman Bermagui , aka Jason , a commercial-grade angler based on the south coast of New South Wales , posted a exposure of the catch on Facebook and thousands of " armchair marine biologist " have count in with their theories of what caused the strange occurrence .
“ alas we did n’t see what ate it but must [ have ] been telling , ” Bermaguiwrote . “Hoping to catch smaller shark but just hooked big sharks that got eat on by bigger shark again .
“ When I conceive I ’d seen it all , we shorten about 35 kg [ 77 pounds ] of meat off the mako question and discover it had a marlin bill embedded in its head . ”
Unfortunately , this is unlikely to be the oeuvre ofa prehistoric megalodonor any other stupendous creature of the bass . Some expert think the mako shark was in all likelihood not decapitated in one big chomp by a giant piranha . Instead , it ’s likely that multiple shark take multiple little chunk out of the organic structure until it fell apart , leaving just the chief attach to the angler ’s line .
" Even a huge great blanched shark would n’t cut a great mako in two pieces in one raciness , " Johann Mourier , shark scientist and behavioral ecologist at UMR MARBEC in France , told IFLScience .
" In the picture , we can see that there were multiple bites , although it seems that the morsel are still big … [ It ] seems to be a big shark with multiple bites [ from ] multiple sharks . "
While the photo might employ a slight spot of position trickery to make the foreland seem tumid , mako sharks are not a little species of shark . They can arise up to 3.2 beat ( ~10 pes ) from tip to bob .
" The guy rope is stand in the backdrop with the stay on top dog of the mako in the front , which gives the picture that the mako is really huge , " Mourier added . " It still seems to be a prominent shark though . "
sleep together as the “ cheetahs of the ocean ” , mako are also the human beings ’s fast - swimming sharks , capable of swimming in bursts at up to 68 kilometers ( 42 mile ) per time of day . They are also known to be extremely nimble creatures , often entertaining fishermen with acrobatic flips and giant leaping out of the water system . This unbelievable f number is potential , in part , thanks to theiraerodynamic skinthat ’s covered in thousands of tiny microstructures . The hide is so well adapt that scientists have said it could be used to inspire the wings of fighter blue jet .
