The thresher shark, a marvel of natural engineering, utilizes its exceptionally long tail as a powerful weapon, stunning prey with rapid, whip-like strikes. This unique adaptation, enabled by ...

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 transverse ...

Off Alor Island in the vast Indonesian archipelago, researchers and conservationists are using tagging technology to track endangered pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus), many of which are ...

A 538-pound thresher shark was caught off the coast of New Jersey. There are some large thresher sharks out there cutting through the water, wagging their sickle-shaped tail. Hoffman's Marina in ...

Thanks to sensational documentaries and summer blockbusters, we are all familiar with the anatomy of a shark attack. The victim, unaware that they are in peril, is struck from below and behind with ...