Monster fish 'swallows a whole green turtle'

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  1. Matt Rogers

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    A 150-kilogram Queensland grouper washed ashore on Townsville Strand in Queensland on Wednesday had swallowed a green turtle whole before it died, experts say.
    DPI veterinary pathologist Dr Ian Anderson found the dead 40-centimetre turtle inside the 2.2 metre long groper following an autopsy on the giant fish this week.
    Groupers are classed as "top level" predators, and are known to eat spiny lobsters, fish, small sharks, turtles and stingrays.
    Queensland's biggest recorded grouper measured more than three metres long and weighed 288 kilograms.


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  2. Bunner

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    awsome!
     
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  3. divott

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    very cool matt. you always add cool stories here. i always look forward to your posts.
     
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  4. invert phil

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    wow awesome, it's ashame it died...
     
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  5. Matt Rogers

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    Indeed. But that's mother nature at least and not some trawling net. ;)

    @divott - thanks! I try. :)

    I have to say, as a kid I had a grouper in a fish tank (anyone else that has had one can also vouch) that I am not surprised by this story. Groupers will eat anything that can fit in their mouth!
     
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    Ok how did it fit the shell? The head of the turtle I can see, but that shell is huge.
     
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    how would it ever have pooped out the shell.....!!!!!???????
     
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    i knew i should'nt have let my sea turtle out for a swimm... DARN..!!!
     
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    RIP salsalito's sea turtle :(

    Dang, that's messed up. I wonder what was going through the grouper's mind during that whole thing...
     
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    he knew it was his last meal, so he figured why not :)
     
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