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 ...

A strange shark with a remarkably large tail was found washed up on a beach in South Africa in a "very rare" sighting. Wildlife photographers Alex and Juanita Aitkenhead stumbled across the shark's ...

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 ...

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 video shows a huge and vulnerable thresher shark washing up on a beach in Queens, New York, on Monday afternoon. Witness Zoe Berger took the 32-second video of the fish on the sand struggling to ...

“When the shark surfaced, its tail slapped the water into a froth a few times,” said Greg Vespe, former Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association executive director, who is in awe of thresher sharks.

The sharks are here. The water temperature in the Gulf of Maine is well below average for this time of year, which should not surprise anyone considering how cold the air temperature has been. This ...