A Shark That Eats Its Veggies?

But when researchers fed some captive bonnethead sharks a mostly seagrass diet, they noticed that the sharks did just fine. The researchers used Carbon-13 to label the seagrass to see if the sharks actually digested the plants and gained nutrients from it. And to their surprise, the sharks did.

Samantha Leigh, the study’s lead author made a couple of fascinating quotes in her Fox news interview.

“We have always thought of sharks as strict carnivores, but the bonnethead is throwing a wrench into that idea by digesting a fair amount of the seagrass that they consume.”

“Given that bonnetheads have a digestive system that resembles that of closely-related species that we know to be strict carnivores, we need to re-think what it means to have a ‘carnivorous gut’.”

When you start from a biblical viewpoint, this study is not surprising at all. God created animals as well as humans to be vegetarian right from the beginning (Genesis 1:29–30). Evolutionists frequently bring up “strict carnivores” like sharks as supposed evidence against certain animals ever being vegetarian, thinking they are disproving what Scripture says. But time and time again, animals thought to be only carnivores are found to be vegetarian or omnivorous. This just further illustrates what the Bible says, that in the pre-Fall world there were no animals eating one another, no bloodshed, and no death. At the Fall, death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering entered all of creation, which now groans because of sin (Romans 8:20–22). So a mostly vegetarian shark shouldn’t (and doesn’t) surprise us—it just gives us one more small glimpse into what life must have looked like when God called everything “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

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This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.