What the Tiger Shark Ate (and Why it Matters)
Cara Cannon Byington
The headline read: “Tiger Shark Regurgitates Echidna.” I clicked the link so fast, I should have burned my fingers.
Tiger shark? Regurgitated echidna? I had so many questions.
The first being: Wait? Echidnas can swim? Yes, they can. In fact, I learned that echidnas—small monotremes (egg-laying mammals) native to Australia and New Guinea—swim quite well. Which, for this particular echidna, turned out to not be such a great thing, since it ended up temporarily, but fatally in the gullet of a...