The longest great hammerhead shark measured at 20 feet, and the heaviest weighed a whopping 1280 pounds! Great hammerhead sharks prefer shallow waters and are usually found up to 262 feet deep.

Image via Facebook Imagine you're in the middle of a tense game of disc golf with friends when a hammerhead shark suddenly falls from the sky. That exact thing happened in South Carolina.

I gasped when I saw it. It was a hammerhead shark, and was nearly as long as my kayak. When I’d got in almost all the loose line the shark submerged and made another run. This time the run was strong ...

“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 ...

Finally, the hammerhead whipsaws, pumping its powerful tail as it shakes its prey and bites it in half. “After the hammerhead ripped the tail from the reef shark, the head sank into some rocks ...

Paddleboarders were greeted by a massive hammerhead shark while on their ocean adventure in St. Petersburg, Florida. Video footage, captured by kayak company See Through Canoe, showed the large ...

Secrets of the hammerhead shark have been revealed in images studied by scientists, who are now one step closer to discovering how the species got its unique appearance.

Great hammerhead shark is in danger of extinction and was placed on the IUCN Red List in June 2004. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images) (2007 Alexis Rosenfeld) ...

The video of the hammerhead shark in St. Pete comes a day before a 45-year-old woman lost part of her arm, and two teens were hurt in two shark attacks about four miles apart in Walton County on Fr… ...

Hammerhead shark on Banner Reef (Florida State Archives (Public Domain)). According to the Naples Daily News, the legends stem from World War II, when German U-boats began invading off the east ...