If I’m being honest, I fucking hate saltwater crocodiles

oceanic-adventures:shark! by Modest Janicki (Modest and Jill) on Flickr.

Great white shark

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On television, we’re use to seeing land predators such as lions take down their prey in parts of the world like Africa. However, NOAA officials had a rare opportunity to photograph several tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) attack a sick humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf back in November 2006 off the Kailua-Kona area of Big Island, Hawaii. The scenes are dramatic, because they offer an extraordinary glimpse into the life and death struggle occurring underneath the ocean waves. From NOAA:

They also noted that little could have been done to save the animal. “Shark attacks are part of the natural world in which these animals live,” said Viezbicke. “To them an ailing marine mammal is a meal and what happened was a natural process within the marine world.”

(Source of photo here) Juvenile tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, Bahamas (Atlantic) (see this post)

bewareofsharks:Yin and Yang (by Paul Cowell)

Whale sharks (see this previous post)

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Humboldt squid (see this previous post)

The following is an excerpt from an article, view the source to read the full version.

The monstrous squid remains motionless just ten feet away. Emotions gave way to cognitive thought and I trained my camcorder on him and begin to record. Almost on cue, he begins his approach. Then, with blinding acceleration, he lurches onto me with a powerful “thud crackle”. He slams into my chest. The impact was incredibly powerful, knocking the wind out of me. His huge arms envelope my complete upper body and camera and I can feel my chest plate move as his beak grinds against it. The crackle and scratching of thousands of chitenous ring teeth against my fiberglass/kevlar chest plate is unmistakable.