Random Most Bizarre Things Humans Have Ever Found Inside Animal Stomachs (12 items)

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  (#3) A Tiger Shark Had A Whole Suit Of Armor In Its Stomach

  Several tiger sharks that were examined in the '90s contained all manner of surprising objects. The items were on display as part of the "Sharks: Facts and Fantasy" exhibition in 1994 by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. One of the craziest things that have been found in a shark's stomach is a whole suit of armor, complete with a helm.

   How a steel suit ended up in the water, and how a shark even ingested it, remain unclear.
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  (#2) A Squid Contained A Live Bomb

  While gutting a three-foot long squid to prepare it for sale, a fisherman in China hit a live bomb with his knife. Thankfully, the bomb didn't go off and the man quickly called emergency services. The squid had apparently swallowed the explosive device, mistaking it for a prawn. The bomb remained inside the squid until it died.

  After emergency services was informed, a special police team removed the dead creature and performed a controlled explosion. They later confirmed that the bomb was live and could have detonated at any time.
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  (#4) A Lake Trout Had A Human Thumb

  In 1992, a fishermen in Wyoming discovered a severed thumb in the stomach of a trout he had caught. The missing digit was eventually traced to Robert Lindsey. He had been involved in a boating accident the year before where two of his fingers and a thumb had been cut off by a propellor. While the fingers were found, the thumb remained missing and thus, couldn't be reattached.

  It is hypothesized that the trout ate the thumb after it was severed and loose in the water, and that the thumb had remained undigested in the stomach of the fish for a year.
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  (#12) A Gray Whale Had A Golf Ball In Its Stomach

  When a dead gray whale washed up onto the coast in Seattle in 2012, scientists carried out tests to see what had killed the marine mammal. Upon examining the contents of the stomach as part of this process, they discovered a wide range of items. Chief amongst them were a golf ball, wooden debris, and plastic.

  The researchers believed these items had probably been dumped into the ocean as trash and then eaten by the whale. 
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  (#5) A Turtle Had Nearly A Thousand Coins In Its Stomach

  A turtle found in Thailand was discovered to have almost 1,000 coins in its stomach. The creature lived in a pond that was frequently visited by tourists who threw coins into the water for luck. The unwitting turtle had eaten these coins in huge numbers until the collective weight of all the change was so strong that it broke its shell.

  A successful surgical procedure was able to remove the coins and fix the broken shell in hopes of saving the turtle. However, the toxic effects of the metal eventually caused an infection due to nickel poisoning, which stopped up the intestines. Nearly two weeks after surgery, the turtle died. 
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  (#6) Jumbo The Elephant Had A Collection Of Junk

  Jumbo was a famous elephant that was part of a traveling circus in the United States. The animal is commonly thought to have introduced the word "jumbo" into the English language as a synonym for "large." When the giant creature died, it was cut open so that different body parts could be sent around the country to various locations and institutions.

  Inside the stomach, workers found an entire junkyard’s worth of scrap. This includes English pennies, a police whistle, keys, and screws.

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