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White shark’s diet may include biggest fish of all: whale shark

Brian Owens · February 12, 2016 ·

White sharks are voracious predators, and it seems they even set their sights on the biggest fish in the sea. Two vertebrae recovered from the stomach of a 4.5-metre-long white shark caught 50 years ago show that it had been feeding on a whale shark, and a big one at that. It was around 8.5 metres long, the size of the vertebrae suggests. Read more in New Scientist.

New Scientist animal behaviour, ecology, sharks

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