A huge shark bit the head off a stranded pygmy sperm whale in New Zealand as a person standing in waist-high water attempted to get the whale back out to sea. The shark, likely a great white (Carcharodon carcharias), returned 30 seconds later to eat the rest of the whale, witnesses said.
The incident took place in northern Hawke's Bay on the Māhia Peninsula on Sunday (Feb. 25) after a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) and her calf got stranded on the beach, Hawke's Bay Today reported.
