Great White Sharks ‘cannibalize’ one another in brutal attack

The stunning video comes from National Geographic, in which two great white sharks lunge out of the ocean and appear to bite each other's face and body, taking chunks of flesh out.

The channel was filming for their new show, “Cannibal Sharks,” that’s set to air on National Geographic WILD’s next week, when the fight emerged.

Cameramen for the channel couldn’t keep quiet as the underwater warriors viciously attacked one another.

Seconds later the giant predators disappear back underwater where they apparently carried the battle on.

The jaw-dropping incident was captured off South Australia's Neptune Island.

Although the footage is rare, Professor Mark Meekan from the Australian Institute for Marine Science reveals in the program that all sharks are actually cannibals, "It's not just one rogue shark attacking other sharks or even one species of shark attacking other sharks, it's lots of different sharks turning on each other."

And the behavior isn’t new.

Scientists have found sharks have been eating one another for millions of years.

An examination of fossilized dung taken from the prehistoric orthacanthus – a shark that swam the oceans 300 million years ago – found it contained fossilized baby shark teeth.

“That shows that 300 million years ago these were cannibal sharks. Shark on shark predation is a fundamental trait,” Meekan explains.

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National Geographic WILD’s “Cannibal Sharks” airs Monday July 15 at 8 p.m.