Rest assured that, at any given point in time, somewhere a shark is eating something. That (admittedly pretty inane) statement has held true, in fact, for hundreds of millions of years. These days, though, the old shark-eating-something event sometimes ends up caught on video and sets the Internet alight: a new twist in an ancient routine.
There’s been a fair bit of that sort of thing going down in the past month or two, so we thought we’d present what you might consider a Sharks-Eating-Things News Bulletin Roundup. Enjoy!
It’s a Shark-Eat-Shark World Out There
Photographer/videographer Marissa Wil was flying her drone off the South Florida coast on August 14 when she keyed into some impressive splashing, which she initially suspected might be a pod of hunting dolphins. A tall sickle-shaped dorsal fin revealed the true cause: “As the whitewater faded,” she told the BBC, “I saw it was a great hammerhead.”
The great hammerhead – biggest of the hammerhead sharks, thought to reach lengths of …