Tiger Shark Eats Enchida!

Plus: The Rare Seal Everyone is Worried About

Good Morning 🍃 This week’s wild stories are astonishing. Researchers were baffled when a tiger shark regurgitated an entire echidna. The internet is concerned over an albino fur seal pup on a remote Russian island. Meet Jesse James, the TikTok-famous adventure ferret. Experts discuss a potential invasion of giant Joro spiders on the East Coast. Finally, a bizarre longnosed stargazer fish spotted in Singapore is giving everyone nightmares. Dive into these intriguing tales!

Tigers sharks eat everything—so the saying goes. But that doesn’t mean researchers weren’t absolutely floored when a tiger shark barfed up an entire echidna. We can’t imagine that spiky meal went down . . . or up . . . easily.

In 2020, Vladimir Burkanov, a marine-mammal biologist, shared a rare and unusual find: an albino fur seal pup on Tyuleny Island, a small and uninhabited Russian island in the Sea of Okhotsk. The photos of the adorably sad-looking pup have started recirculating, and people are flooding Burkanov’s original post with comments.

Prepare to be jealous of a ferret. Jesse James the hiking ferret has the best life, at least according to his TikTok account. A recent video shows off a day in the life of this adventure ferret, and it really does seem great.

First cicadas, and now giant spiders? Perhaps you’ve already seen the headlines about “giant venomous spiders” poised to invade the East Coast of the United States. In fact, Joro spiders have been invasive in the U.S. for about a decade in the southeast, but experts say the species will expand across the East Coast this summer, as far north as New York. Should we be afraid? Here’s what you need to know.

Reader beware: The longnosed stargazer fish’s stare is about to live rent-free in your head forever. The Untamed Paths, which offers ecological excursions in Singapore, recently posted a video of a rare find from an intertidal exploration. The “uncommon and fascinating sight” of a longnosed stargazer staring up from the sand is downright bizarre.

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