"The Whale That Ate Jaws" - Shark Thread!!!!

WhoDat26.2 said

I thought the same thing when I read the OP. Something a lot bigger than an orca swam those oceans a long time ago. Sharks are one of the oldest species in the water, their DNA would "remember".

Remember, the Kracken was fiction until we discovered 60-foot giant squids. You just never know.

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Yeah, I am of the mind that there are terrible terrible things yet to be discovered living in the depths of the great trenches in the oceans. I mean, up until recently we thought the giant squid was the biggest squid until the Japanese IIRC discovered the mega squid or something of that name that is even larger.

We still don't know exactly what these great white sharks do or exactly where they go all year round. I liked the part about the shark cafe. Who knows what goes on there? Some sort of shark conclave where they discuss the recent killer whale problems, mate, hunting techniques. I mean, we don't know.

But they said that each seal could provide enough energy for a shark to survive for 3 months and sometimes they've seen single sharks take up to 5 seals. That's a year and half worth of energy and nourishment that they eschewed for safety. And the part where the scientist said that one shark IMMEDIATELY dove to a depth of 1500 feet and swam away from the Farallons after the death of the gw shark. This fear has got to be genetically encoded. I wonder what animal sparked this encoding.