WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
The shocking moment a bull shark began feasting on a crocodile just metres from the shoreline has been captured by terrified beach-goers.
Two women walking along the beach at Nhulunbuy, a remote town on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory, filmed the horrific scene this week.
They began by filming the crocodile lying belly-up on the shoreline before a shark suddenly wriggled its way out of the water to sink its teeth into the carcass.
The shark pulled the crocodile back into the water and took a large bite out of it.
The carcass slowly drifts away as the now well-fed shark disappears underwater.
The video has floored both Australian and international viewers who were dismayed and impressed by the graphic scenes.
‘The croc is dead already so not much to see,’ one unimpressed local said.
A shocking video filmed in a remote Northern Territory town has captured the moment a shark emerged from the ocean to feast on a dead crocodile
‘So I’m never going in ankle-high water at the beach,’ a viewer from the US said.
‘The shark was damn near out of the water, no beach for me anymore,’ another foreigner added.
‘As Australian as it gets,’ a fourth said.
Nhulunbuy, in the the Arnhem Land region, is the fourth-largest town in the Northern Territory with a population of 3,267.
It’s not an uncommon sight to see crocodiles and sharks mingling as they share a lot of the same diet.
Seeing them face off against each other is somewhat rarer.
Marine biologist Lauren Sandeman said that both animals are opportunistic predators so that might explain why they could see each other as food.
‘They’re both marine predators and opportunistic at that, so they’ll eat what they can, when they can,’ Ms Sandeman told YahooNews.
In the video the bull shark sinks its teeth into the dead croc before dragging it back into the ocean and taking a large bite out of its stomach (pictured)
