Enormous Shark Found With Head Bitten Off By An Even BIGGER Beast Off Coast of Australia
An Australian fisherman was shocked when he pulled up the head weighing a whopping 100kg
A FISHERMAN has found a huge severed shark's head in the ocean, sparking fears there could be massive super shark roaming the waters.
Trapman Bermagui - also known as Jason - made the discovery in waters off the coast of Sydney, Australia, this morning and is desperate to know what monster ate the rest of the shark's body.
Jason was shark fishing off the coast of Bermagui, a town in New South Wales, when he picked up the mako shark head - weighing 100kg.
He wrote on Facebook alongside a picture of the huge head next to a young man: "So this was all we got back of this monster mako. Unfortunately we didn't see what ate it but must of been impressive!! The head was about 100kg.
"It was a crazy morning of shark fishing. Hoping to catch smaller sharks but just hooked big sharks that got eaten by bigger sharks again."
A mako shark can grow up to 3.8m (12ft) long and weigh up to 570kg (1,260lbs) and they are the fastest sharks, swimming up to 46mph.
EATEN BY A MONSTER
An animal of this size would have been eaten by a creature much, much bigger.
So what is lurking in the waters of southern Australia large enough to bite of the entire body of a mako shark?
A finding like this could raise questions of the return of the megalodon shark, thought to be extinct.
Scientists say the megalodon shark roamed the globe's waters approximately 3.6 million years ago and, at 18m (58ft) long, they are thought to have been the largest fish on the planet.
FISHING FOR ANSWERS
Alternatively, a great white shark, at a length of 6.1m (20ft) could have taken a bite of the mako Jason found.
Commenters on Jason's Facebook post seemed to have their own theories about how the heard appeared without its body.
Greg Doble reckons more than one great white made the attack. He said: "Great White more than one as well, you can see the smaller conveyor teeth outside major bite marks, not Orcas they tend to eat just the liver of large sharks and let the rest drop to the ocean floor."
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