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The development is a puzzle because sharks do not usually eat the small furry mammals, preferring the much fattier flesh of seals.
Biologists say more than 50 per cent of dead otters that wash up on California's coastline bear the marks of great white shark bites.
The trend is concerning conservation groups as California's sea otters are endangered.
It is thought that the sharks are not even eating the otters, but just biting them, with the otters dying from the wounds inflicted by the fearsome predator.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3202230/Are-great-white-sharks-developing-taste-OTTERS-Biologists-baffled-predators-switch-usual-seal-prey.html#ixzz3jOCnVJYG
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