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!