NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN — Researchers found a great white shark with head injuries that were apparently inflicted by an even bigger shark in the North Atlantic Ocean.<br /><br />OCEARCH said in a Facebook post that its scientists named the shark Vimy before they tagged and released him.<br /><br />OCEARCH founding chairman Chris Fischer told the McClatchy news group Vimy bears scars on the lower jaw and fresh wounds on the top of his head."<br /><br />Fischer said the new injuries appeared to be the toothiwork of something significantly bigger than Vimy's 12 feet.<br /><br />Vimy, weighing about 1,200 pounds and measuring less than 13 feet, is actually smaller than the average great white shark.<br /><br />Fischer told McClatchy that Vimy could have been trying to mate with a female shark before a larger male rival bit him.<br /><br />Fischer was quoted as saying, "Maybe Vimy was just the small guy on the block."<br /><br />Another possibility was that Vimy tried to make the moves on a much bigger female shark that chomped on his head instead."<br /><br />Vimy could also have been attacked when trying to snack on a seal that the proverbial bigger fish had its beady eyes on.
