I did another little drawing, slowly learning how to make these a little better. How to use the digital drawing tools properly still eludes me, so here is something in more of a crayon style. I put in a small story to make it a bit more worth clicking on.
And yes I made the shark male specifically to not get "I wish there were claspers on it" comments XD

Young white shark hunts rays

Somewhere off the coast of Santa Barbara a young white shark was chasing after his lunch. As the barely two meter long shark moved his tail rapidly to close the gap with his next prey, his breakfast, second breakfast and brunch were being tossed around inside the warm confines of his stomach. Being on the larger side of sharks, fairly active and warm blooded, white sharks require a lot of nutrition and this is doubly true for young, growing examples like this one. Luckily for him the area was rich in various kinds of rays and flat fish, like the bat ray, the halibut and the assorted stingrays already melting in his acid drooling stomach, soon to be joined by yet another one.
He had no idea that his habit of devouring several stingrays a day was turning the nearby beaches into a lot less of a minefield for all bathers who would in turn run screaming if they saw him. The shark was solely focussed on what he did best: turning other animals into his very own stomach contents. Built for camouflage rather than speed, the similarly young stingray stood no chance. Once discovered by a shark it was only a matter of when it would end up in his stomach and in how many pieces. With a few more flicks of his overproportionally big caudal fin, the white shark closed the gap, ripped his imposing jaws wide open and sucked the stingray directly into his maw. Water pumped out of his flaring gill slits as the ray was pressed between his tongue and palette. From the outside, there was only a faint squelching sound as the shark’s skin pushed upwards just below his lower jaw. On the inside, this half second event was the entire consumption of the stingray. The flat little elasmobranch had been squeezed into the shark’s short gullet, which eagerly folded it up just like the previous five and then disposed of it in the warm acid bath of the little great white’s stomach.
Before the stingray even had time to have its gill filaments turned into mush or its eyes blinded by the mix of strong acids, digestive enzymes and the melted flesh of its brethren, the white shark had already slowed down and began looking for more. Even with only a short life to draw experience from, he knew he will have plenty of room for another ray by the time he finds it, even if he was full already.

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