For one swimmer, a late night dip ended in a painful altercation with a cookie-cutter shark, the first documented case of the small shark nipping at a living human. But why did it happen?

said Bermagui in the caption of the post. The picture of the tuna covered in cookie cutter shark bite marks. These small sharks lock onto their prey using suction, then use their razor-like teeth ...

2. Its common name comes from the cookie cutter-like wounds it leaves in its prey. Its shape has also led some to call it the cigar shark. If you prefer to refer to it in another language ...

Then it twists sharply, gouging out a chunk of meat much like a cookie cutter. Or as some scientists believe, like one of those tools used to carve out melon balls. While the shark doesn't get any ...

But don’t worry about it too much. Only one person, a long-distance swimmer, has ever been attacked by a cookie-cutter shark. It came after him twice in fifteen seconds, and gave him a nasty ...

Those fresh bites and scars were almost like someone took a cookie cutter and surgically removed a hunk of tissue ... Eventually, it was discovered that the culprit was a small shark that is ...

The fact that there is such a thing as a cookie-cutter shark — shaped like a cigar, no less — is not nearly as unnerving as the idea that its name is fitting. They are among the world’s ...

The cookie-cutter shark grows to about 2 feet long as an adult, but has specially crafted jaws that can scoop out a nugget of flesh, leaving a gaping hole, hence the "cookie-cutter" name.