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 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 ...

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 ...

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.