This is known as oophagy ('egg eating') and occurs in species including the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bigeye thresher sharks (Alopias superciliosus). Embryos of other sharks survive by ...

The carcass of a massive shark was discovered washed ashore on a British beach, as an investigation was launched by experts to find out how it died. The two-and-a-half metre thresher shark was ...

Whale sharks are filter-feeding sharks, meaning as they swim ... reach up to the following approximate lengths: Note for the thresher shark, more than half of its body length comes from its ...

Wildlife officials identified the animal as a thresher shark, a species considered “endangered” in Europe, the group said. “Initial assessments suggest that the shark had experienced ...