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On a nearby beach a 14-foot, pregnant hammerhead shark washed up two months ago, McClatchy News previously reported. A hammerhead “feeds mostly at dusk,” the Shark Research Institute reports ...
A hammerhead shark in shallow water. According to the International Shark Attack File, humans have been subjects of 17 documented, unprovoked attacks by hammerhead sharks within the genus Sphyrna since AD 1580. No human fatalities have been recorded. [34] Most hammerhead shark species are too small to inflict serious damage to humans. [8]
Sphyrna alleni is a small species of shark, measuring less than 150 centimetres (4.9 ft) in length. Like other hammerhead sharks , its head is shaped into a flattened cephalofoil. The latter has a more angular anterior edge than that of S. tiburo , and bears lobes on its posterior edges, leading to it being described as "shovel-like". [ 1 ]
The great hammerhead shark is an active predator with a varied diet, known prey of the great hammerhead include invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, squid, and octopus; bony fishes such as tarpon, sardines, sea catfishes, toadfish, porgies, grunts, jacks, croakers, groupers, flatfishes, boxfishes, and porcupine fishes; and smaller sharks such ...
For the first time, researchers have captured photographs of a shark actually giving birth to a live pup, clearing up quite a bit of the mystery surrounding such an event. As there are and have ...
A July article about two Panama City Beach swimmers circled by a hammerhead shark was among the most viewed News Herald stories of 2021.
The scalloped hammerhead was the first shark species to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. [25] As of 2019, the scalloped hammerhead has been categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. [26] The IUCN cites overfishing as the main cause for the drop in population numbers. [26]
Swimmers on Navarre beach, Florida, were recently taken aback when a hammerhead shark swam right up to the shore. Dan Flynn had been fishing on a nearby pier with his stepson when he spotted the ...