Polar bear eaten by shark: who’s top predator?

Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear’s title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark.

Scientists researching how far sharks hunt seals in the Arctic were stunned in June to find part of the jaw of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, a species that favors polar waters.

“We’ve never heard of this before. We don’t know how it got there,” Kit Kovacs, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, told Reuters of the 10 cm (4 inch) bone found in a shark off the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

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Tagged as: Animals, Arctic Predators, Greendland Sharks, Kit Kovacs, Norwegian Arctic, Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Bears, Polar Waters, Predators, Seals, Sharks, Svalbard

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