Why Are Larger Sharks Starting to Eat Each Other?

Amaze Lab

Recently in Bermuda something believed extremely unlikely happened, a tagged and pregnant porbeagle shark was eaten. However, researchers say the 12-foot-long creature was consumed by another shark.

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00:00recently in Bermuda something believed extremely unlikely happened a tagged impregnant poor beagle

00:09shark was eaten by another shark researchers who were tracking its movement noticed its satellite

00:15tag was exhibiting some really strange behavior with marine biologist Brooke Anderson saying about

00:20it I kept trying to think of alternative explanations for the increase in temperature

00:24depth but all signs pointed to the same conclusion that our pregnant female poor beagle had to have

00:29been eaten by an even larger shark poor beagles aren't easy prey either as they grow to be upwards

00:34of around 12 feet long and weigh around 500 pounds however their numbers are dwindling due to sport and

00:40commercial fishing meaning if other large sharks are now eating them this could be very bad news

00:45what's even worse is that while they live for decades they don't begin to reproduce until around 13 years

00:49of age they also only have a litter of up to four pups just every year or two meaning their reproductive

00:54cycle is quite slow so what kind of shark made a mature 12 foot long poor beagle its dinner the

01:00researchers say because of the increased temperature it was likely a great white shark or a short fin mako

01:05as both generate heat inside their bodies

01:10you

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