This Is How Monster Movie Scenarios Start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_QyGANCUJI
This is either not cool or very cool. I can’t decide.
A huge 9-foot-long great white shark was eaten by an even bigger “mystery sea monster,” according to scientists.
Researchers had tagged the healthy shark to track its movements as part of a study, but were shocked when the tracking device washed up on a beach in Australia four months later.
Data captured on the device showed there was a rapid temperature rise from 46 degrees to 78 degrees Fahrenheit along with a sudden, sharp 1,902-foot plunge.
The researchers believe the data proves it was eaten by something much bigger, saying the temperatures recorded indicate that the shark went inside another animal’s digestive system.
Whatever sort of critter it was that ate this shark, just remember: don’t call it Godzilla.
As long as I don’t have to go into the water, it’s very cool.
One word: megalodon. And I’m with you, Frank. Fuck swimming in the ocean. The last time I did that there were weird things brushing up against my legs and I couldn’t see a damn thing. The only thing scarier is perhaps swimming in the coffee-brown waters of a swamp, surrounded by reeds and cypress trees. Shudder.
Actually, it’s less exciting than that. I have to post a follow-up piece.
Hmmm. The tag somehow worked its way into the shark’s intestinal tract and was crapped out before washing up on the beach? Oh well, I was really hoping for megalodon. Or the kraken from the old Clash of the Titans. Or Cthulhu…that would have been awesome. The incomprehensible geometry of the universe has aligned and the Old Gods are waking!