Massive Crocodile Bites Shark, Swallows It Whole In Rare Moment

A photographer recently managed to capture pictures of a monster-sized crocodile attacking and swallowing a shark in the east coast of Australia.

Mark Ziembicki, who was surprised to see the reptile feasting on the small bull shark, took the pictures of the rare encounter.

A photo by Ziembicki shows the 1,500 pound crocodile closing in on the 100-pound shark with its huge mouth open wide. In a second photo, the crocodile is seen with the shark in its jaws, ready to swallow it. The photographer captured the images using a Canon 5D SLR camera with a 300mm lens, according to LAD Bible.

While it is unlikely that crocodiles and sharks swim together in the same water, Ziembicki said the recent opening of the St Lucia estuary and excessive rainfall might have led to the predators coming face-to-face with each other in the saline coastal waters.

"While we were busy taking photos of another crocodile on the bank there was some commotion about one-hundred feet away," Ziembicki said. "A local resident of the area who was also there shouted there was a croc eating a shark... We turned to see the shark thrashing away in the crocodile’s mouth."

"It spent about ten minutes with the shark in its jaws, tossing it about," he said. "The shark gradually moved less until it was eventually swallowed whole headfirst... We were completely taken by surprise... We'd been observing both the crocodiles and sharks in the area for several hours and were wondering what would happen if the two might meet."

"We had our answer I guess, although obviously there was a size mis-match on this occasion," he added.

Recently, a video showing a shark and an alligator swimming alongside each other in the Indian River Lagoon in Florida went viral. The footage was taken March 21 by Gray Vinson. "It’s not everyday you see a bull shark and a gator swimming together in the Indian river," he said in the caption of the video. It's hard to spot the bull shark, but it is fairly visible in the video.