The sharks are here. The water temperature in the Gulf of Maine is well below average for this time of year, which should not surprise anyone considering how cold the air temperature has been. This ...

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

QUEENS, N.Y. – A large thresher shark washed ashore at a New York City beach, and the shocking moment was all captured on camera. Zoe Berger was at Rockaway Beach in Queens on Monday when she saw the ...

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 big ...

Scientifically speaking, the term "tail" usually refers to a flexible extension of the backbone, so it’s inherently a vertebrate feature, containing bones and often linked to the spine.

HARTFORD, Conn. — When most people think of sharks, their minds go to deep-sea expeditions or the movie "Jaws." But for two Connecticut fishermen, it became a real-life experience on a small boat in ...

Authorities in Aberdeen would like to talk with anyone who can explain how a dead shark was left at a boat launch on the Wishkah River. It appears to be a 12-foot Thresher shark and was left overnight ...

The thresher shark, a marvel of natural engineering, utilizes its exceptionally long tail as a powerful weapon, stunning prey ...

OCEAN CITY – A Somers Point man and his son made quite the catch during their Father’s Day fishing trip June 15. Robert Moss and his 9-year-old son, Parker, caught a 394-pound thresher shark around 28 ...

I have so many memories from my decades of operating a charterboat, and I love sharing those wild tales. Here is one. After buying a couple of scoops of live bait from the bait receiver near the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — When most people think of sharks, their minds go to deep-sea expeditions or the movie "Jaws." But for two Connecticut fishermen, it became a real-life experience on a small boat in ...