This week, while fishing rod and reel, my husband had a lengthy encounter with a thresher shark. It appeared to be a juvenile, about 6 feet, with an additional 3-foot tail fin.

The pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicu s) is a highly migratory species found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, often known for its long, whip-like tail. Despite its ...

On New Year’s Day, the body of a male 4.25m (13.9 feet) thresher shark washed up on Par Sands Beach in Cornwall, shocking locals. Just a few months earlier, another thresher shark was found dead ...

The examination revealed damage to the mouth and signs of hemorrhaging. Wildlife experts disclose disturbing details after 14-foot thresher shark washes ashore: 'Major risk to sharks and other ...

This was a big thresher, better than 200 pounds. I spun down the drag to the right setting and swung hard enough to lift a tree stump out of the ground. The shark didn’t budge. I handed the rod ...

Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark. The ...

The Maldives island, colloquially known as Shark Island, appears a sunny, idyllic, not-at-all-shark-infested paradise. Hird then announces that over 30 species of sharks lurk just beyond the shore ...