Okay, Chelsea. I don't think this is outside
my wheelhouse. It's different than anything we've
been following. Definitely a new story. Well,
I'll tell you if it's outside. A new source that
I've never used before. So we'll see what we
feel about it. We'll see. TheMirror .com. This
article is from February 6th, 2025 by Douglas
Witchbeard. And article title, Dead Great White
Sharks Keep Washing Up With Enlarged Brains And
No One Knows Why. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. Experts
have been left bewildered as great white sharks
within large brains keep washing up dead along
the eastern seaboard of America. Marine wildlife
specialists still cannot pinpoint why the cluster
of nine apex predators have been discovered on
beaches over the last few years. With most displaying
the same rare medical issue, the first white
sharks to wash up on a beach was found on Prince
Edward Island in Canada, oh, in August of 2023.
There were initially no physical signs of why
the ferocious animal, which measured just under
9 feet long, had passed away. Only when a research
team cut it open did they discover that it had
died from meningoencephalitis. which causes brain
inflation. The unusual disease can be infectious
in sharks and is typically spread via bacteria,
viruses, or parasites according to the National
Library of Medicine. However, the team that examined
the carcass said it was not clear what exactly
caused the illness in the large fish. Despite
the disease's scarcity, a further four of the
animals were discovered dead on beaches across
eastern Canada along the same time. Half of these
were eventually discovered to have the same illness.
The deaths came as further shark carcasses were
discovered on beaches across the US between 2022
and 2023. The animals were discovered in Massachusetts,
Long Island, New York, and South Carolina. Dr.
Ellison Newton, the chief veterinarian for OCEARC
told the New York Times Quote, I feel very strongly
that there's something significant going on.
End quote. Despite the deaths, sharks seem to
be no less prevalent in US waters. There were
69 unprovoked shark bites on humans in 2023 globally
with a whopping 36 instances happening in the
American coast, according to the International
Shark Attack File. In November last year, the
officials in Hawaii said a surfer in Maui had
his legs severed during a shark attack. I always
hate, aside from this, whenever we talk about
sharks, we have to bring up shark attacks, which
we shouldn't have to. Oh, we do have to. Yeah,
I know. But like saying that, by the way, yeah,
like 30 shark attacks off the coast over this
period of time. And they kind of make it seem
like prevalent. And it's not like this is not
something we should be worrying about at all.
Yeah. Literally, any time I mention a shark,
I then have to pivot to talk about attacks. Yeah.
Always. Every time. And you know what? They actually
end it with a description of a shark attack.
So I'm going to end that there, Chelsea. Oh,
OK. The rest is literally just a description
of a shark attack. I'm not sure what to do with
this information now. Is it about the first thing
or the last thing? Yeah. Hold on. What's the
table? Did you say it? Yeah, the title was, Dead
Great White Sharks Keep Washing Up Within Large
Brains, and no one knows why. Then is there something
about shark attacks? No, it's just that thing
where, like, media has to talk about shark attacks
when they talk about sharks. And it just, like,
it inflames people's fear of sharks and, like,
actually prevents us from, like, preserving them
as a species, I think. Probably. Well this is
interesting. Yeah, rare disease. Not that many,
but that's a lot of great white sharks to be
washing up on shores. Yeah, and is this more
than the Mirror reporting this, or do you think
they're making it up? I don't think they're making
it up because they used a quote from a New York
Times article that seemed to be covering the
same thing. Okay, well this is weird then. Maybe
it's microplastics. It could be, but that wouldn't
explain, like they said it was bacterial, did
they not? Like the meningitis -ish name? Which
I don't think is on plastic, and if it is, man,
we have a whole other issue. Yeah, that's cheating.
Does that word just mean inflammation, and it
could be a bacteria? I don't actually know. We're
not scientists is the problem here. No. We're
not. This is all speculation. All of it. And
now we have to pivot to shark attacks. Are they?
Are they just getting too smart and it's accidentally
killing them because their brain gets bigger
when they get smart? Because their brain gets
so big. Yeah. Maybe they're going through a revolution
right now. Maybe all those cans and bottles that
are ending up in the ocean, they're reading them
and it's causing them to get smarter and it's
crushing their brains. Because their skulls can't
like hold the brain that big. Yeah. they were
never meant to and in fact it might be a safety
mechanism so that you know they never can get
to a point in evolution where they create global
warming and kill off the species really brilliant
if you think about it from a shark point standpoint
yeah but any event you guys got 48 hours don't
learn too much because that could have been what
happened here and it might be transferable to
humans we don't know for sure again we're not
scientists so don't think about too much just
just focus on the fun i'm not learning anything
Bye!