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Even though hammerhead sharks are a large species, they are generally not a threat to divers. As of 2025, there have only been 18 attacks ever reported, and none were fatal.
Hammerhead sharks eat a large range of prey such as fish (including other sharks), squid, octopus, and crustaceans. Stingrays are a particular favorite, with the positioning of their (comparatively) smaller, crescent-shaped mouths underneath their T-shaped heads allowing for skilled skate, ray, and flounder hunting, among other seafloor-dwellers.
“The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a variety of water depths such as shallow lagoons and coral reefs ...
The basking shark, a harmless plankton feeder, visits the island in large groups during the winter, but is rarely seen. The common smooth-hound comes close to shore in the late summer to breed, but is too small to be dangerous to humans. [6] The hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena) is another fish eater, and is sometimes encountered while fishing.
Hammerheads use their oddly shaped head to find their favorite prey – stingrays.
Great hammerhead embryos are connected to their mother by a placenta during gestation. As with other hammerhead sharks, great hammerheads are viviparous; once the developing young use up their supply of yolk, the yolk sac is transformed into a structure analogous to a mammalian placenta. Unlike most other sharks, which mate on or near the sea ...
A marine biologist had the "most amazing day" when he captured rare footage of hundreds of the world’s most sensitive sharks. Dr. Simon Pierce, 39, filmed the herd of hammerheads in the ...
The winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii) is a species of hammerhead shark, and part of the family Sphyrnidae. Reaching a length of 1.9 m (6.2 ft), this small brown to gray shark has a slender body with a tall, sickle-shaped first dorsal fin. Its name comes from its exceptionally large "hammer", or cephalofoil, which can be as wide as half of the ...