It makes snacks of blue whales, the largest animals ... Simply by surprise. The cookie-cutter shark is an excellent ambusher, darting toward a mark and suctioning onto flesh with its full ...

The picture of the tuna covered in cookie cutter shark bite marks. These small sharks lock ... solved Stomach-churning photos show half-inch whale lice feasting on live humpback Extremely Rare ...

including whales, dolphins, and even larger fish. These bites can cause significant damage to its prey. Despite its diminutive size, the cookie-cutter shark is an opportunistic predator ...

That trip was cut short when a school of cookiecutters mistook the vessel for a whale — which is on their menu, along with dolphins, bluefin tuna and other, bigger sharks like great whites.

The whale's pristine condition is of particular interest to researchers, offering potential insights into the species' diet, behavior, and biology. Researchers noted cookie-cutter shark marks on ...

A fourth type of Pacific killer whale may live miles offshore ... from other known orcas due to scars or bite marks from the parasitic cookie-cutter shark, which only occur in the deep ocean.

A separate clip shows another of the whales — an adult male ... They are covered in white marks and small scars from cookie-cutter sharks and lampreys. Moira Ritter covers real-time news for ...

Cookie cutter ... that leaves "cookie cutter" like chunks out of the prey. These tiny sharks only grow up to be about 2 feet long. They prey on larger creatures like whales and dolphins for ...

But the researchers saw another more obvious, less natural distinction: all but one of the 49 whales surveyed sported bite marks from cookie-cutter sharks. Those scars lend further credence to the ...