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 ...

Most of the time, a thresher shark's tail is gently swishing side to side to move through the water, but it's capable of a ...

A South African wildlife photographer was out on Sunset Beach when he came across something unusual. A small shark, with an incredibly long tail fin, was washed up on the beach. “It’s not often we get ...

Thresher shark strandings increase during fall as the marine animals struggle to navigate Cape Cod waters while migrating ...

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 ...

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 ...

The moment a massive beached shark on the verge of death was carried back to the ocean has been caught on film. A group of friends were cycling near the North Beach in Durban, South Africa, back in ...

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 approaches a ...

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 ...

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 ...