Showing posts with label Giant Squid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giant Squid. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Unknown monster eats great white shark whole (video)

Mystery monster eats 3m long great white shark wholeScientists suspect that a 3m long great white shark was eaten whole by a mystery monster.

The shark had been tagged with a heat and GPS recording device that told scientists of the female shark’s steep ocean descent and of the sudden dramatic rise in temperature of the sea dweller.

The sharked reacted well to the tagging and was observed to be very healthy without any scars or marks on her.
Shark Alpha, as the beast was named, nearly reached 2000ft (609m) before her body temperature zoomed from just over 40 degrees to 78 degrees.

Marine biologists have stated that such a temperature rise can only be due to the huge predator being eaten by a bigger beast.

While killer whales have been known to attack and kill great white sharks, what sort of sea creature could ingest a whole shark?


Read Full Story: Metro UK

Friday, October 12, 2012

Mysterious eyeball washes ashore in Florida (video)

Taking his usual morning stroll along the surf in Pompano Beach, Gino Covacci noticed a strange ball-like object at the high tide line. He kicked it over and found himself staring at the biggest eyeball he had ever seen.

The blue, softball-sized orb he found Wednesday was a departure from the shells, cigarette butts and seaweed he usually sees. He put it in a plastic bag and put that in the refrigerator.

"It was very, very fresh," he said Thursday. "It was still bleeding when I put it in the plastic bag."

He notified a police officer, who gave him the phone number for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. No one could say immediately what species the giant eye came from.

Wildlife officers placed the eyeball on ice. It will be preserved in formalin, a mixture of formaldehyde and water, before being sent for analysis to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, said Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the wildlife commission.

So what creature is now swimming around with an eye patch?