Giant stingray has giant bite taken out of it by mysterious super predator
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.
'One person wrote; "OMG that's scary." But other visitors questioned why people wanted to go into the water around the Australian island. Another commenter said: "And people still want to swim in the surf of K'Gari. No substitute for common sense. The funny side of the shark attack was also highlighted by other visitors to the area, One wrote: "Surprised you got that much back - you can still get a few scallops out of it."
Mystery as hundreds of tiny fish wash up dead on UK beach leaving locals baffled
The Mirror reported earlier how a teenage boy died in a horror shark attack at a popular beach in Australia. The youngster's body was pulled from the water minutes after the attack near Ethel Beach in the Innes National Park. Police remain at the scene and are preparing a report for the coroner. It is thought the boy had been swimming at around 1.30pm local time at Ethel Beach but encountered the animal, understood to be common along Marion Bay at the Innes National Park.
A local fisherman said: "We've seen some pretty big bronzies in the area, but that's normal here... I went to take the boat out and the road to Ethel's was blocked by rangers. There's no cell reception out there in the park so we didn't know what had happened until we got back to Marion Bay."
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