Little Fish Eats Big Fish. Explodes. Dies.

Discover the incredible great swallower fish that attempted to consume a snake mackerel four times its size in the Cayman Islands.

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A fish called a great swallower lived up to its name when it tried to eat a snake mackerel that was a full four times its own length off the coast of the Cayman Islands. A passing fisherman spotted the weird fish-in-a-fish and brought it back to Cayman Department of the Environment.

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