The common thresher shark that washed up on Sunset Beach, Cape Town, South Africa. The shark was photographed by Alex Aitkenhead, who made the rare sighting.

A massive shark, which was rescued from an abandoned net, was tragically found dead just days later in the UK. The 31st (200kg) common thresher - also known as the Atlantic thresher - was ...

Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark. The ...

C apt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark.

video: A three-quarter view of a micro-CT scanned vertebral column segment and a single micro-CT scanned vertebra of a common thresher shark. In the thresher column, the frontmost vertebra is a ...

Scientists studied how thresher sharks use “extreme yoga” to whip their tails at prey. By Kate Golembiewski When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it ...

Local News Dead shark washes ashore on South Shore beach as Cape sightings pile up The cause of the death of the thresher shark at Duxbury Beach is being investigated.

Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark. The ...