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Baby Tiger Sharks Are Eating Sparrows And Woodpeckers

When researchers made a shark throw up to see what it had been eating, feathers came out.

By Roni Dengler
May 21, 2019 10:03 PMFeb 24, 2020 3:15 AM
Tiger Shark swimming
A tiger shark swimming (Credit: Shane Gross/Shutterstock)

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Often called “the garbage cans of the sea,” tiger sharks are voracious eaters. The sharks will eat just about anything — fish, other sharks, seabirds, sea turtles, whale carcasses. The list goes on.

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