Tiger shark regurgitates whole echidna, leaving Australian scientists ‘stunned’
by Emily Wind from on (#6NA9S)
Mammal was likely swimming between Queensland islands when it just got unlucky and got snapped' - spikes and all - in apparent world-first
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The last thing a group of scientists busy tagging marine animals along the coast of north Queensland expected to see was a shark regurgitate a fully intact echidna - but that is exactly what happened.
In what is believed to be a world-first, researchers from James Cook University, including former PhD student Dr Nicolas Lubitz, were tagging marine wildlife off the coast of Orpheus Island between Townsville and Lucinda in May 2022.
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