A group of students from Australia’s James Cook University got a bit of a shock when they caught a tiger shark in May, 2022. They were tagging marine life off the coast of Orpheus Island, north Queensland at the time, but this shark did something strange: it puked up an echidna, a quill-covered little creature […]
Researchers tagging marine animals off Australia’s Orpheus Island were shocked when a tiger shark they caught spat up an echidna, a grub-eating monotreme recognizable for its spine-covered body. Known for eating just about anything, it seems this tiger shark met its match. “I’ve seen videos of them eating a rock for no reason,” said Nicolas […]
Researchers on Thursday said they were shocked to observe a Tiger shark throw up an echidna while tagging marine life near Orpheus Island off the north-east coast of Australia. A team of researchers from Australia’s James Cook University observed a medium sized Tiger shark regurgitate a still whole, dead echidna in May 2022 which the […]