Analysis of human remains recovered from a shark |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, 65 Kavanagh St., Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia;2. Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, 65 Kavanagh St., Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia;3. Centre for Medical Research, Toshiba Medical ANZ, 12–24 Talavera Rd., North Ryde, New South Wales 2113, Australia;1. School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2113, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;2. Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;3. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Brinkin 0810, Northern Territory, Australia;4. South Australian Research and Development Institute – Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;5. South Australian Department for Environment and Water, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;6. Innovasea, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada;1. Department of Anatomy, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria;2. Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria;3. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria;4. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria;1. Ocean and Coast Research, Main Beach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia;2. Fisheries and Conservation Science Group, School of Ocean Science, Bangor University, Wales, UK;3. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, Queensland, Australia;4. Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Trauma caused by marine scavengers and predators, especially sharks, is not well known. This paper describes the effect of shark attack on human remains. They were found in the stomach of a tiger shark caught by fishermen near Hollywood Beach, Florida. The remains belonged to a white male in his late twenties or early thirties with a stature of 175 cm. The damages to the skeleton and the association of these damages with the behaviours of tiger sharks is also analyzed. The trauma affecting long bones are circular punctures around the epiphyseal ends. Other changes include unique crescent shape grooves horizontal to the shaft of the bone. Although all of the bones are affected, none of them is fractured or crushed, suggesting that the body parts are first dismembered and then swallowed and digested. |
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