A Pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) cruising the Monad Shoal seamount near Malapascua Island, Philippines. These pelagic deep water sharks come up to the seamount's shallower part to get ...
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 ...
Foreword / Eugenie Clark -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Description of species accounts -- Illustrations -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Knowledge and study of ...
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 ...
Common thresher sharks like the 700-pound, potential state record-setting fish caught off the Connecticut coast recently have not been well studied compared to other shark species, a scientist with ...