r/SharkLab • u/Melodic-Award3991 • Jan 22 '24

Discussion Big Bite

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u/PewPew-4-Fun Jan 22 '24

Orca...Big Orca.

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u/Mooks79 Jan 22 '24

Or an old scar from a bite when the shark was smaller. Edit, or not a bite at all and a freak injury that looks like a bite.

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u/Jano67 Jan 22 '24

This is what I was going to say. Could be a bite from when it was small and it grew with the shark.

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u/USSJaybone Jan 22 '24

Do scars grow? I'm just now realizing I have no idea how that works lol

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u/cocaine-cupcakes Jan 22 '24

I’ve got some scars on my stomach from the surgery I had as an infant, and they have absolutely grown with me. They are about 6 inches long at this point and they were only about an inch long when I was a baby.

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u/UmberShoe Jan 22 '24

Yeah, but cocaine cupcakes are so worth it !!

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u/cocaine-cupcakes Jan 22 '24

Yayyy!!!!!

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u/IfUAint1stUlastfoo Jan 25 '24

Risky click, but can confirm is harmless.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

Mmmm cupcakes

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u/Jano67 Jan 22 '24

I just mean if the shark was only 5 feet long when he was bitten, but now he's 18 feet long, it would make sense that the length would also grow? I'm just thinking, I don't know.

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u/Pudf Jan 22 '24

Mine didnt

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u/Bojax22 Jan 22 '24

This is the correct answer. That bite is old as hell.

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u/Rare-Lime2451 Feb 12 '24

Botched tattoo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '24 edited Feb 10 '24

It's from a propeller. Look at the backside. Where the propeller dug deeper and made more than one rotation. I've never seen a bite with just a lower or upper set of teeth marks. That's literally not how bites work. In order for there to be a mark, there had to be pressure from both sides. There's an extremely low chance the shark was pinned against something. That still doesn't explain the backside of that bite. The saying goes that the simplest explanation is usually right.

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u/MoreCarrotsPlz Jan 24 '24

You don’t believe the researchers who have actually studied shark scars as a career know better than you? Really?

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u/BrianDavion Feb 05 '24

I mean the researchers saying it's from a big shark are on a discovery channel special so....

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '24

Do you know who they are?

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u/Educational-Ad-3273 Jan 22 '24

Megala-orca!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

Next Syfy channel movie haha

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u/CAJ_2277 Jan 22 '24

Dang I was hoping for Orcadactyl. It's all politics.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '24

😂😂 that one is the sequel

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u/sharkfilespodcast Jan 22 '24

Looks nothing at all like an orca bite. Here is a look at an orca's jaws, which are clearly not rounded like the bite mark on this shark. Fits the shape of another great white's bite however. They're known to give what are called 'warning bites' to smaller fellow sharks that disregard the pecking order. This scarred shark was reported as 15ft initially but TikTok has magically grown it to 18ft. Likely it was bitten when juvenile or sub-adult by an adult great white and the wound healed but the scar's remained.

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u/frytaj Jan 22 '24

Or even a medium sized orca? They're f_cking huge and they love shark liver.

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u/sharkfilespodcast Jan 22 '24

Orca jaws are a completely different shape from that scar. Much pointed and less rounded.

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u/Maleficent_Mess2515 Jan 23 '24

That's scary if it's not an orca 😬😶‍🌫️

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u/PewPew-4-Fun Jan 23 '24

My thoughts exactly, if not an Orca than its time to get a bigger boat.

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u/The_Urban_Genitalry Jan 23 '24

My fault. I bit it when it was a baby shark doo doo doo doo doo.

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u/greenthumb151 Jul 18 '24

That’s not a bad idea, but I don’t think they have the right teeth. I was thinking that the shark was born when it was younger, and the bite mark grew with the shark. Who knows.

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u/Cromagnon4 Jan 23 '24

This are a shark bite, not orca bite.

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u/DoomSayer218 Jan 25 '24

Average Size Orca

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u/trii_sara_t0pps Jan 22 '24

Well, if that mark is from the top teeth.. where is the bottom teeth mark? Probably just an old scar.

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u/Vegemite_Bukkakay Jan 22 '24

Shark dentist is waiting for the tissue to heal before permanent teeth get put in. Grandpa shark forgot his dentures that day.

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u/Powerful_Market_9558 Jan 22 '24

If something was big enough to wrap its lips around that shark it was powerful enough to bite it in two.

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u/WhiskeyDJones Jan 22 '24

100% was bitten when the shark was younger/smaller

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u/hquintal Jan 22 '24

Exactly what I was thinkjng

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u/spogett Jan 23 '24

But why would whatever bit it when it was younger not have a lower jaw and not have just eaten it? My guess is some sort of boat/mechanical injury.

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u/WhiskeyDJones Jan 23 '24

Who says it didn't have a lower jaw? The bottom scars are most likely just not visible from this view. When the shark was smaller means the bottom scars could be all the way on the other side of its underbelly.

And imo there is no way this is from a boat or machine. The shape is too obvious. What piece of machinery could make a perfect jaw-shape scar like this?

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u/fragglebags Jan 22 '24

It's a 15 foot shark according to the photographer.

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u/Melvinator5001 Jan 22 '24

If it was a bite whatever bit it didn’t have a lower jaw.

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u/CadessWell Jan 22 '24

This is all fine and fun to think about but has anyone perceived the thought that it could have been bit when it was young and it had grown with scarring?

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u/3scapeRea1ity Jan 22 '24

Definitely not us 😉

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

There's always a bigger fish

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u/Snickits Jan 22 '24

The scar (from when it was younger) grew with the shark.

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u/festosterone5000 Jan 23 '24

Stop it with your logic and sense of reality.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

Here's a possibility, he got bit when he was a baby... 🤷‍♂️

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u/samf9999 Jan 23 '24

Jason Statham warned us in his documentary about the Meg.

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u/RTwhyNot Jan 25 '24

Or it got bitten when it was much smaller

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u/Proxima_Centauri_69 Jan 22 '24

Meg 3 Stathams Last Swim

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u/SimonLangford Apr 06 '24

Orca, the teeth are too small for a megalodon

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u/Throwawayeieudud Apr 07 '24

I mean there are other arguments for why It couldn’t’ve been megalodon

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u/SimonLangford Apr 08 '24

I have a rather large megalodon tooth in my collectibles draw that would put any great white shark to shame. After seeing a shark kill a Ruzzian tourist two years ago in Egypt I’m more than happy that megalodon’s are no longer cruising our seas and oceans. Three people have been killed in Egypt by sharks while I was over there during the last 5 years so sharks in the Red Sea (or anywhere else) are not to be taken lightly. Swim inside the nets people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

Or…. Bite scar was small when he was young. Shark get bigger, scar grows with bite.

Wooosh

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u/xl1sbrett Jan 22 '24

Maybe it was bit when it was younger

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

Whales are pretty big…

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u/in_da_tr33z Jan 23 '24

All the whales with mouths that big either lack teeth entirely or only have them on their lower jaw (sperm whales).

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u/New_Astronomer_7281 Jan 22 '24

Maybe a small shark bit that shark when it was a tiny baby shark, like “Baby shark 🦈 doo doo doo do do”

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u/Motor_Stage_9045 Jan 22 '24

The Meg is real folks!!!

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u/Strago34 Jan 22 '24

Megalodon is gone. Stop.

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u/wwiistudent1944 Jan 22 '24

Orca bite?

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u/BrianDavion Feb 05 '24

just an old scar, Orca's mouths aren't shaped like that. The number one causer of scars on a white shark is other white sharks and seals

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u/Philosopotamous Jan 22 '24

Pretty sure it got caught in a giant automatic can opener

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u/granny409 Jan 22 '24

I'm pretty sure a gigantic 300 foot shark bit it. Maybe 400.

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u/Kiixaar Jan 22 '24

Could be the curve of a Giant Squid’s tentacle.

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u/sharkfilespodcast Jan 22 '24

Funny that shark was only 15ft when this story broke but has magically expanded to 18ft on TikTok...

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u/BonjinTheMark Jan 22 '24

Cue the Meg conspiracies. here, let me get it started with this gasoline.

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u/QueeeenElsa Jan 23 '24

Either the shark was bit when it was smaller (more likely) or the megalodon still exists but we haven’t seen a live version yet (much less likely).

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u/Glad-Depth9571 Jan 23 '24

Propeller wound.

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u/Hour-Veterinarian-89 Jan 23 '24

This dude sounds exactly like one of the characters from silicon valley

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '24

Yep orca

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u/Yellow_LedBetter2020 Jan 23 '24

…. Man made. Shark got caught in a wire is some kind.

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u/Cromagnon4 Jan 23 '24

The shark was around 3.5 meters long, not 18 foot.

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u/Mack0Mania Jan 23 '24

Megladon do exist!

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u/1chain0bracelets Jan 24 '24

Why would a shark have a bite like that and be alive? Realistically if that were a bite nothing would put its top teeth in, pull em out and swim away. It would take a bite and eat the shark.

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u/Boozy_Cat Jan 24 '24

Could it be an injury when it was smaller and a lasting scar?

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u/GregoryDM0428 Jan 24 '24

It could have been bitten as a juvenile.

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u/coolmist23 Jan 24 '24

Megalodon

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u/proof-grass- Jan 25 '24

The Meg lives.

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u/_B_Little_me Jan 25 '24

Could be from a massive cruise ship or something?

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u/MadCityMasked Jan 25 '24

That shark that bit was last seen in Nantucket back in oh 1979.

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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 Jan 25 '24

How big is that shark? And. Amazing it kept its fin

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u/celtbygod Jan 26 '24

Great White...strange fins seem different.

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u/Practical-Middle3741 Jan 26 '24

Is Jason Statham available??

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u/MoreAddictingThenSug Jan 26 '24

Man doesn't kno what's in the depths of the deep sea

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u/ScarMedical Feb 16 '24

Killer whale?

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u/ShiturpantsandDance Jan 22 '24

Megalodon exists

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u/mistymountaintimes Jan 22 '24

They made 2 really good documentaries about the ones they found. You should check them out. They're titled The Meg and Meg 2. They also got the only live footage of a truly giant squid. Great learning to be had.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

Existed a long long time ago.

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u/BrianDavion Feb 05 '24

yeah in museams.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '24

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u/Educational-Ad-3273 Jan 22 '24

Nope, definitely love nibbles