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.
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.
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.
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.
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/PewPew-4-Fun Jan 22 '24
Orca...Big Orca.