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submitted 5 months ago by Tau@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Researchers from James Cook University were tagging marine life on the northeast coast when the 3m tiger shark they caught vomited up a dead echidna.

Nicolas Lubitz, a PhD candidate who studies marine predators, said he could only assume the shark gobbled up the echidna while it was swimming in the shallows off the island, or travelling between islands, which the animals are known to do.

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[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nicolas Lubitz, a PhD candidate who studies marine predators, said he could only assume the shark gobbled up the echidna while it was swimming in the shallows off the island, or travelling between islands, which the animals are known to do.

TIL echidnas can swim

[-] jobby@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago

TIL that tiger sharks can hunt in bush land.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TIL that tiger sharks can hunt in water land.

[-] Tau@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

It's one of these things that logically you know must happen occasionally (and I've even seen pictures of it) but still doesn't seem right.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Are there any mammals that can't?

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago
[-] PahassaPaikassa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

Just because your mum floats doesnt mean she can swim

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Greenpeace are trying to get her back in the water

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

...dead echidna — a spiny creature similar to a hedgehog, which is usually found in forests, woodlands, shrublands and grasslands.

damnit! I did not have "universe gives us an actual land shark" on my 2024 bingo card. this decade is just gonna stay weird, isnt it...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Not actual land sharks; actual sea echidnas.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago

Watch out, they'll prick your toes.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Would’ve been a prickly meal.

[-] Tau@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

I am impressed the shark got it out again and didn't end up with a permanent internal echidna spine collection.

[-] helvedeshunden@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Straight out of one of those Sonic games where you can choose your own character.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I'm more certain than ever that tiger sharks are called that because they can morph into tigers to hunt land animals.

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