TIL that sometimes a bird of prey tries to grab a fish out of the water, but they misjudged and the fish is too...

TIL that sometimes a bird of prey tries to grab a fish out of the water, but they misjudged and the fish is too heavy, and their claws are still stuck in the fish, and the fish ends up swimming around with the skeleton of the bird trailing in its wake.

Brutal.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/raptors-once-more-raptors-part-2/

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