Tail-whipping thresher sharks are giving fishermen some thrills on the ocean and plenty of steaks on the grill.

You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell ...

Threshers are not named for the thrashing motion of their tail, as many assume. Instead, their name comes from a farming ...

The recent accidental catch of a “very large” thresher shark off Rhode Island was fortuitous in that the shark was safely released and continues to provide researchers with important data.

The common thresher shark that washed up on Sunset Beach, Cape Town, South Africa. The shark was photographed by Alex Aitkenhead, who made the rare sighting. Alex Aitkenhead/www.alexaitkenhead.co.za ...

A thresher shark was found washed up on Duxbury Beach on Thursday morning, officials said. Duxbury Beach Operations shared photos of the discovery, describing the shark being about 13 feet in length.

A giant 11ft thresher shark was found dead on Par Beach in Cornwall by a dog walker on New Year's ... More Day. On New Year’s Day, the body of a male 4.25m (13.9 feet) thresher shark washed up ...

A vulnerable thresher shark got stuck Monday afternoon on Rockaway Beach, but a fearless beachgoer was able to drag the struggling fish back to the safety of its home in the deep.

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 ...

This 12-foot-long thresher shark was found dead on the shore of Duxbury Beach on Aug. 1. Its body was recovered so a necropsy can be performed to determine the cause of death.

"I wear contacts so getting water in my mask is extra bad as I can't open my eyes underwater. Shortly after being told about a shark colliding with my friend from behind and removing his mask, I ...