Caught on camera: Shark eats smaller shark at Florida beach

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The video taken at Florida's Jacksonville Pier shows a shark eating another shark.

The clip has since gone viral, with more than 385,000 views as of Tuesday morning.

Witnesses said it appeared that someone was trying to reel in a 2-foot shark when another shark, possibly about 6 feet long, ate the other one.

University of North Florida biology professor Dr. Jim Gelsleichter explained the encounter:

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"I believe that’s a smaller shark was a black tip and the larger shark looked like a bull shark,” Gelsleichter said.

Gelsleichter said researchers have seen evidence left from similar attacks.

“It’s common for us to haul back a half of shark, a shark head, or in some cases a larger shark that got hooked when he grabbed on to a smaller shark,” Gelsleichter said.

He said most people usually don’t catch it on camera – and that it happens more often than we think.

Experts said we should start to see shark encounters decrease in October and November.

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