Reported Live Science, this Cookiecutter shark with an alien-like face has a body only 50 centimeters long. These fish use their pointed teeth to eat great white sharks that are 10 times their size.
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“They eat everything from white sharks to orcas to fish and other small marine creatures,” said Aaron Carlisle, assistant professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware.
Shark The cookiecutter (Isistius brasiliensis) lives in tropical and subtropical waters at depths of more than 1,500 meters. If this alien fish is near sea level it is usually to hunt for larger prey in the upper ocean.
The researchers tested the assumption that these sharks eat larger animals in the upper ocean by studying 14 cookie-cutter sharks caught around Hawaii by the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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The researchers found that shark Cookiecutters mostly prey on smaller species at lower depths, including crustaceans, squid and small fish, such as members of the genera Ariomma and Cololabis. Some of this prey may be small enough for a shark to swallow whole.
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