KILLER WHALES HAVE NEW WAY TO GET SHARK LIVERS : THEY HEAD BUTT THE SHARKS!

Excerpt: Behavioral ecologist Tristan Guttridge has uncovered how orcas, better known as killer whales, have been able to wipe out populations of white sharks around the world - ripping them apart in highly coordinated strikes from the US to Africa.

'These animals are taking out Jaws... surgically removing their liver and leaving the rest of the animal,' Dr Guttridge said during Discovery's annual Shark Week, in a new special airing Tuesday at 9pm ET.

Shockingly, it appears orcas have learned and taught other whales this deadly behavior by practicing on human sailing boats, wrecking and even capsizing hundreds of boats worldwide.

 YIKES!

Excerpt: In South Africa, dead white sharks began washing ashore with their livers 'surgically extracted.'

Researchers explained that a shark's liver, which makes up 25 percent of their body weight, represents a pure energy feast to a pod of orcas.

Shark livers help the creature store massive amounts of fuel, and are also filled with oils that help the animal control its ability to float. For a great white shark, the liver can weigh hundreds of pounds.

While the great white is a massive predator, orcas are even bigger and can grow to be over 30 feet long and weigh over 14,000 pounds.

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : ORCAS HUNT SHARK LIVERS

FRESH WATER "PEACH BLOSSOM" JELLYFISH IN IDAHO POND?

Peach blossom jellyfish originated in China :

LA MONDE DE LA MER

 

FOUR HUNDRED POUND SEA TURTLE IN CAYMAN ISLAND SWIMMING POOL RESCUED

Artificial Light is the problem:

Excerpt: But artificial light sources from development on the beach, or flashlights, can interrupt this process and redirect the turtles from where they need to go.

The DoE reminded beachfront properties to help protect nesting turtles by doing the following:Retaining and restoring native coastal vegetation
Reducing artificial light visible from the beach
Moving beach furniture and small watercrafts off the active beach overnight
Designing new elevated pools or installing effective barriers around ground-level pools
Never leaving ground-level pools empty or without suitable fencing during nesting season

 Beach-goers and tourists can also do their part to protect sea turtles. during nesting season, including keeping beaches flat and easy to navigate and reducing their own sources of artificial light.

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A ONE HUNDRED FOOT ROGUE WAVE SHATTERED OCEAN SCIENCE MYTH : THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA

The 100-Foot Rogue Wave That Shattered Ocean Science Myths

Excerpt: A dramatic image that has recently resurfaced on social media shows what is believed to be one of history's most famous rogue waves—a towering wall of water bearing down on the French supertanker Esso Languedoc off the coast of Durban, South Africa, in 1980.

The unforgettable photograph was taken by first mate Philippe Lijour, who happened to have his camera ready as the massive wave rose above the ship's bow. The wave was later estimated to have reached nearly 100 feet in height.

The numbers alone are staggering.

As the wave crashed across the vessel, it swept over a mast standing roughly 82 feet above the waterline, offering one of the earliest pieces of photographic evidence that these seemingly impossible waves truly existed.

ORCA

 

WHY WON'T THE DEALIEST PREDATOR IN THE OCEAN (ORCA) EAT YOU?

They don't hunt humans.  Do we taste bad?

WHAT ELSE IS HIDING DOWN IN THE ATACAMA TRENCH ? : D CAMANCHACA BUILT FOR VIOLENCE : NEW PREDATOR WITH FRONT LIMBS AND SPRING LOADED CLAWS

POPULAR MECHANICS " NEW PREDATOR FOUND IN ATACAMA TRENCH

Excerpt: while nobody has yet watched D. camanchaca eat, its body is clearly built for violence. It has a slender, fast-looking frame, mouthparts made for shredding rather than filtering, and a pair of oversized, grasping front limbs that work like spring-loaded claws. In most amphipods, those limbs are unremarkable. But in D. camanchaca, they dominate the animal’s front end, which is the anatomical signature of something that grabs living prey instead of waiting for a dead whale to drift down.

At 25,925 feet, the water presses down at roughly 790 times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. But the two-inch-long D. camanchaca is able to live there, molting, swimming, and hunting under a load that would flatten most creatures. Precisely how it manages that isn’t yet fully understood.

“This finding underlines the importance of continued deep-ocean exploration particularly in Chile’s front yard,” IMO’s Carolina González, co-lead author of the study, said in a press statement “More discoveries are expected as we continue to study the Atacama Trench.”

BRAWN LED TO BRAINS : PBS EON TELLS US THAT THE TWO DEVELOPED TOGETHER

THE AIR

 

SHARKZILLA?!? 3.6 METRE SHARK TOOK CHOMPS OUT OF HUMPBACK WHALE and SEAL AND HUGE TUNA : IS THIS THE RESULT OF NUCLEAR WASTE MUTATION

2 OCEAN VIBE : MASSIVE 3.6 METRE SHARK : NUCLEAR WASTE DRIVEN BIOLOGICAL CHANGES?

Excerpt: But the discovery of a 12-foot (3.7-metre) mako shark in New York’s coastline, which has been dubbed Sharkzilla, has some locals thinking that its huge size might be the result of a nuclear waste leak causing it to mutate. Yes, really.

This shark is making its marks, quite literally, having taken a 24-inch chomp out of a humpback whale, inflicting a 22-inch wound on a seal and chewing up a 400-pound (180 kilogram) tuna. So, at least its eating well.

The fearsome sea creature was recently featured on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week in an episode titled “Sharkzilla Takes New York,” with the show detailing the efforts of shark scientist, Craig O’Connell, and experts to track down the beast, with the attacks proving that enormous sharks are making a return to the area.

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Siren here!  What do you think?  IS THIS SCIENCE FACT OR A DELICIOUS FICTION?

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