Pelagic thresher sharks are a sight to behold, but their numbers are dwindling as a result of illegal hunting and fishing. Now, however, scientists are using acoustics to learn more about these ...

Pelagic thresher sharks, charcoal-eyed predators that patrol the world’s oceans, use their massive, scythe-like tails to slap schools of sardines, according to a new study published Wednesday in ...

Pelagic thresher shark, Alopias pelagicus, at Monad Shoal near Malupascua island in the Philippines.The sharks visit this seamount where bluestreak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, remove ...

It has for years been suspected that thresher sharks use their long, scythe-like tails to slap and stun small fish before feeding. But the pelagic sharks are elusive and extremely difficult to study.

Pelagic Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) getty. Another shark researcher from the Global South is Andres Lopez, 42, is a Costa Rican marine biologist and co-founder of conservation NGO Mision ...

Thresher sharks are the exception. They’re deadly at both ends, ... watching and filming wild pelagic thresher sharks—the smallest of the three species—hunting large shoals of sardines.

Oliver and a team of shark biologists filmed feeding pelagic thresher sharks on 25 occasions in their native waters off the coast of the Philippines, during fall months in 2010, and have come to ...

The image of the thresher shark was shot by photographer Attila E. Kaszo during a 2013 research dive led by Dr. Simon Oliver from the University of Chester in the U.K. Fox News. U.S.

They tested fins from endangered pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) — a species commonly found in the fin trade. Almost 85 percent of fins sampled from retail markets in Hong Kong and China ...