Just like old uncle Frank, several species of sharks tend to become slower and less agile as they age, a new study from Florida Atlantic University has found. In a a joint effort by FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service, scientists examined cartilage mechanics […]
New England cold snap leaves sharks in shock
Three thresher sharks were found dead Massachusetts’s Cape Cod Bay this week as temperatures plunged following a cold front this week that caused sub-freezing temperatures across most of the country. Experts believed that the sharks died due to cold shock. Temperatures in the area were as low as five degrees. The three thresher sharks were all […]
Thresher shark leaps into fisherman’s dinghy
Two south Australian fishermen got quite the scare when a nearly 10-foot thresher shark leaped into their boat while fishing less than a mile off shore of Port MacDonnell in Southern Australia. “The next thing all I could see over his left shoulder was this head, these two big black eyes and a mouth and the […]
