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Giant Stingray Bitten by Mysterious Sea Monster -Super Predator Pliosaur?
Giant Stingray Has Giant Bite Taken Out of It by Mysterious Super Predator
Large bite marks were discovered on the body of the giant stingray leading locals to question why tourists would want to swim in waters around K'Gari island where sharks are known to visit
BBC 29 DEC 2023
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Super Predator Pliosaur
A giant stingray fish had a bite taken out of it after being found bleeding on the beach.
It was discovered with large bites on its side reminding swimmers the waters can be perilous in the summer months. The giant fish was found with two missing bits of flesh at 75 Mile Beach in K'gari, Queensland, Australia on Wednesday morning and was still bleeding.
Tourists were shocked by the image which happened near the Champagne Pools. Aussie locals said it showed no one should swim in the ocean off K'gari, where giant sharks and dangerous marine stingers frequent the waters.
Daryl McPhee, associate professor of Environmental Science at Bond University, told Yahoo the attack was most likely to have been carried out by a shark. He said: "There's a large variety of different shark species there and several of those shark species really like to eat stingrays. A lot of the whaler sharks and also tiger sharks."
The vicious attack he insisted is not rare, as sharks are opportunistic and take a chance to prey on smaller species when they can. He added: "K’gari has always had a lot of sharks. The only reason why there haven’t been too many shark bites there is because simply not many people swim there."
The stingray species is known to inhabit shallow waters, which he said made it even more vital tourists were vigilant. The reaction from those visiting the area was one of shock as they saw images of the bite marks on the ray's body.
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